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Meeting of the Board of Regents | September 2003

Monday, September 1, 2003 - 8:00am

 

THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT / THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK / ALBANY, NY 12234

TO:

The Honorable the Members of the Board of Regents

FROM:

James A. Kadamus

COMMITTEE:

Subcommittee on State Aid

TITLE OF ITEM:

Regents State Aid Proposal Discussion Materials

DATE OF SUBMISSION:

August 28, 2003

PROPOSED HANDLING:

Discussion

RATIONALE FOR ITEM:

Policy Development

STRATEGIC GOAL:

Goal 2

AUTHORIZATION(S):

SUMMARY:

In July, you discussed the context for your 2004-05 State Aid proposal and provided guidance to staff on developing the proposal throughout the process. To continue the discussion of plans for your 2004-05 State Aid proposal, I provide you with the following information:

  • Discussion materials on Regents proposals and legislative action over the past five years as a way of assessing progress in meeting Regents goals (Attachment A);

  • A proposed draft introduction to your proposal for school year 2004-05, recasting the proposal as the first of a five-year proposal and updating data in presentations on the resource and achievement gap (Attachment B);

  • A discussion paper titled An Exploratory Study of the Relationships Among Student Need, Expenditures and Academic Performance (Attachment C);



  • An invitation to the Board of Regents and other interested persons to attend a public forum on the release of two studies on the condition of New York schools conducted by the Education Finance Research Consortium (Attachment D); and

  • A schedule of reports planned for the development of this year�s proposal (Attachment E).

I propose that our meeting time be devoted to assessing progress in meeting Regents goals (Attachment A) and the discussion paper on pupil need (Attachment C).

 

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