01.30.2021 COVID-19 School districts face uncertainty as preliminary state budget shows cuts in aid Nearly every local school district would face cuts in state aid under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2021-22 budget. As the governor presented his budget proposal last week, two vastly...
05.15.2016 Editorials Editorial: Declining voter turnout is cause for concern Page 3 of the May 17, 2012, edition of the Riverhead News-Review featured a pair of stories about the school budgets passing in the Riverhead and Shoreham-Wading River school...
04.01.2015 Education School Districts to see increase in state aid, but at a cost New York State’s adopted budget for 2015-16 includes increases in school aid for all of the districts in Riverhead and Southold towns. The budget increases school aid by 6.2...
05.03.2013 Education Special Report: Cap hasn’t slowed spending in North Fork school districts When state lawmakers approved a 2 percent cap on annual tax levy increases in 2011, they said the legislation was designed to control school district spending and ease the...
05.03.2013 Editorials Editorial: Not what we expected from ‘2 percent’ tax cap The biggest disservice New York State lawmakers did to themselves — and to local school districts — when they passed the tax levy increase cap in 2011 was to...