State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending.
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Judy Rattner
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3/9/11
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The mood was somber as school board trustees and Rockville Centre school district administrators sat down on Feb. 1 for the first of six public work sessions on the 2011-12 budget.
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Judy Rattner
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2/9/11
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Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it.
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12/16/10
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The Nassau County Legislature voted 11-8 to approve County Executive Ed Mangano’s $2.6 billion budget on Saturday night, following a contentious, two-day public hearing in Mineola that turned …
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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11/3/10
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The Nassau Legislature's hearing on its 2011 budget became heated on Monday over a proposal to nix the county's longstanding guarantee to pay for property owners' challenges to its tax assessments. If passed, the plan would effectively shift that burden to school districts and towns.
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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10/18/10
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Dozens of protesters from throughout Nassau County converged on the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Monday morning to see whether the county Legislature would vote on a proposal to nix the county’s guarantee that it will pay for challenges to property owners’ assessments.
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David Weingrad
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10/18/10
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“Just when you think everything’s going well,” said school Superintendent Dr. William Johnson of new testing guidelines recently issued by the New York State Education Department, “it’s not.”
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Judy Rattner
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10/6/10
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It was back to school for Rockville Centre students on Tuesday, as a fleet of bright yellow school buses and legions of parents took their children to school on what otherwise would have been a sunny — and quiet — late-summer day.
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Judy Rattner
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9/8/10
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Last week, New York state won nearly $700 million in federal Race to the Top money, which it will use for education.
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Alex Costello
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9/1/10
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South Side High School has again been ranked among the top 100 high schools in the country in the annual list compiled by Newsweek magazine, which was released over the weekend.
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Katherine Kollitides and Judy Rattner
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6/16/10
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