Amicone: Spitzer hits right notes on education
Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone liked the themes Gov. Eliot Spitzer sounded in today’s State of the State address – property tax relief, rebuilding infrastructure and, most of all, fully funding public education.
Amicone, who went to Albany for the speech, said he has shared the city’s efforts at improving the school district with the Governor and his staff and the need for achieving permanent fiscal solvency.
“I want to thank Governor Spitzer for his commitment to education, and pledge to work with him as he fulfills his promise,” Amicone said in a written release.
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The property tax cap is THE most important item. It’s years late coming to NY, if it ever actually gets here. It’s worked well in Massachusetts.
Of course the “Education Bureaucracy” will scream to the
skies. Too bad. It continues to show bad results but
still expects bigger and bigger rewards in terms of funding from local taxpayers. In many districts, especially in the large cities, the public schools are disasters.
But all the money in the world won’t make them better.
That fact has been proved now for decades. It’s long past
time to rein in the stifling and greedy education bureaucracy, which exists only to perpetuate itself.
Ditto.