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Community News
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, February 25, 2011 |
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City Council Member Robert Jackson, joined by 200 other protesters, led a rally against Governor Andrew Cuomo’s planned $1.5 billion budget cuts to education on Feb. 19 in Albany. As the lead plaintiff in the successful Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit filed in 1993, Jackson argued that the funding cuts will take back the money that was promised to city schools. To reduce education cuts Jackson and protesters urged Cuomo to reverse tax breaks on the richest New Yorkers.
“In 2003, I walked 150 miles to Albany because an eighth grade education was not a ‘sound basic education’ for our children,” Jackson said in a statement. “How can (Cuomo) be setting our school children back while offering tax cuts to New York’s highest income earners? This budget would take back every dollar in CFE funding ever delivered by the state.”
The CFE lawsuit was finally resolved in 2007 by the courts with the enactment of a four-year commitment to increase school aid statewide by $7 billion including $5.5 billion in basic classroom operating aid.
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