Schools
Hauppauge to See Boost in Final State Aid Numbers
With Assembly members expected to vote on a final state budget Thursday, Hauppauge's aid will no longer be cut, but now increased year-over-year.
With state Assembly members poised to vote on a final budget on Thursday, state leaders announced Wednesday school aid totals for the 2013-2014 budget year, which will increase aid next year to Hauppauge School District by about $440,000.
The district had been originally proposed in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget to receive a cut in state funding of about 0.67 percent, to $11,222,114. However since the executive budget was released in late January, legislators have lobbied to restore funding to schools.
State Sen. John Flanagan, R-Northport, the chair of the State Senate Education Committee, said in a recent interview that though education was the largest growth area in the budget, "we don't agree with the distribution of that, and that's where we will have a lot of the debate."
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Hauppauge's total aid – $11,644,608 – represents a 2.58 percent increase over last year.
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