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Kathy Hochul alluded to updating the Foundation Aid formula for school funding by eliminating its reliance on outdated census data when she announced her \u201cgeneral agreement\u201d for the state budget Monday. The question boils down to whether the state will swap the old formula\u2019s method for determining district needs with a regional cost index, as the state Legislature proposed in its one-house budgets, or opt for Hochul\u2019s proposal of using more recent poverty data and replacing free and reduced lunch rates with data on which students are considered economically disadvantaged.\r\n\r\nState Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have been tight-lipped about which way things are trending, although Stewart-Cousins confirmed to reporters Tuesday that negotiations over Foundation Aid are still ongoing.\r\n\r\nIn the short term, school districts in New York need to hold votes to approve their budgets for the upcoming school year by May 20. There\u2019s hope that the state budget could be voted on as early as this week, but districts had benchmarks to meet even before that.\r\n\r\nDistricts, other than those in small cities, were supposed to distribute ballots to members of the military on April 25. They were supposed to send a \u201cproperty tax report card\u201d to the state Education Department on Monday and are supposed to hold budget hearings between May 6 and May 13 while making copies of the budget available to voters upon request up to two weeks before the budget vote.\r\n\r\nSchool districts know better than to expect an on-time state budget, but if the state ends up sending them significantly less than their projections, which are based on last year\u2019s school aid disbursements, they\u2019ll be in a pickle.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt could be very significant, I\u2019m aware of a district that because of the replacement of the poverty measures, would get like $500,000 less than under current law, and so they're hopeful that something would be done to benefit them, to offset that impact,\u201d said Robert Lowry, the deputy director for advocacy, research and communications for the state Council of School Superintendents.\r\n\r\nIn New York City, the difference between expected and received school aid could differ by as much as $350 million based on city Department of Education projections. While lawmakers are signaling districts should make conservative estimates in their budget planning \u2013 running with the roughly $37 billion the governor plans to allocate, which includes $140 million more than she originally proposed \u2013 there are still concerns among educators and advocates.,\r\n\r\n\u201cWhile an overhaul of the outdated formula is sorely needed, the current proposal makes matters worse \u2014 shortchanging NYC students as a result,\u201d said Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children of New York.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":false,"misc_topics":[184]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13305}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>School districts fret over potential changes to Foundation Aid in state budget - Advocates for Children of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ur\/articles\/school-districts-fret-over-potential-changes-to-foundation-aid-in-state-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"School districts fret over potential changes to Foundation Aid in state budget - 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