Key Issues

Public School Funding

Current Events

• START OF SESSION LEGISLATIVE LETTER (3 pages - 275 KB)  
  • The 3 Keys to Changing Public Education (2 pages - 3.13 MB)  
• NYSSBA LETTER: Governor Cuomo (3 pages - 237 KB) 
• LEGISLATION:  Explanation of Specific Flood Relief Legislation (1 page - 77 KB) 

State Aid/ State Budget

• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: State Foundation Aid Formula
  

Real Property Tax

• Answers to common questions on tax cap, tax levies and tax rates (1 page - 556 KB) 
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Property Tax Cap
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Property Tax Assesment and Collections
• Report : Propert Tax Cap: Pass or Fail for School Districts Dec 2010
• Testimony : Governor's Commission on Property Tax Relief Fex 2008
• Report : Excelsior! Key Drivers behind New York's 'Ever Upward' Property Tax Burden
• Report : Nondiscretionary Cost Table

Mandate Relief and Cost Savings

• State Budget Analysis Webinar - Questions and Answers
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Prohibit New Unfundaed State Mandates
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Legislative Fiscal Oversight
• Mandate Cost Analysis Template
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Expand the BOCES system
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Fully Fund Federal Programs
• April 2010 Memo to Regents Tish - Special ED Mandate Relief

Labor

• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Triborough Reform
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Freeze School Salaries
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Teacher Compensation Reform
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Tenure Reform
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: 3020 - a Teacher Discipline Reform
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Pension Reform
• Report : Pension Reform for the 21st Century
• Report : Quality Educators in Every School
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Wicks

Community Qwnership and Local Governance

• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Community Ownership
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Oppose Board Removal
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Reform Teaching Time Limits
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Evaluation of Teaching and Principals
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Consolidation of School Districts and Functions
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Charter Schools
• Report : Charter Schools : Investment in Innovation or Funcding Folly

School Finance

• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: School District Reserve Funds
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: TRS Pension Cost Amortization
• NYSSBA ISSUE BRIEF: Cooperative Purchasing