Friends, the state of our county is good. Our unemployment rate is at 5.1 percent, the lowest in the state. Thanks to the combined efforts of the governor, our county executive and local officials . . .
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1/16/14
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School tax rates have gone up an average of almost 20 percent over the past two years, well over the state-mandated 2 percent tax cap.
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10/24/13
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Last week, taxpayers across Long Island voted on their school districts’ proposed budgets. There are 124 school districts across Long Island, and 95 percent of their spending plans passed.
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5/31/13
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There has long been a terrible assumption about school success: It largely depends on the genetic code with which you were born.
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4/18/13
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Taxes for village homeowners will rise about $100 next year under the budget approved by the Valley Stream Board of Trustees on Monday night.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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4/17/13
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Valley Stream’s Board of Trustees has been working on the 2013-14 village budget for several weeks now, and the public will finally get to see the proposed spending plan this Monday night.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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4/11/13
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You’ve probably been reading a lot lately about your local school district’s proposed budget for next year.
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4/4/13
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Within a few days after you read this, New York state will have a new budget. It will mark the earliest budget passage in the past 30 years.
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3/28/13
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and many state legislators, view 2011’s tax cap law as one of the crowning achievements of this administration.
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3/28/13
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About $300 million in additional state aid is expected to make its way to New York’s school when the state Legislature approves a budget later this month, possibly this week. At least some of that should trickle down to Valley Stream’s four districts.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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3/20/13
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