Politics on the Hudson

State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, has announced the AFFIRM Ed Task Force will hold a Town-Hall Meeting on Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Greenburgh Town Hall.

The name is an acronym for Alternative Funding and Fiscal Reform for Public Education; Stewart-Cousins said in a news release it is meant to “explore alternative sources of school district funding to augment or replace funding through local property tax levies; explore measures by which school districts can contain and control costs; inform legislation proposed by the Governor’s Commission on Real Property Tax Fairness to ensure that any cap on property tax does not have the effect of reallocating, rather than alleviating the high tax burden of Westchester County residents; and propose legislation that will help school districts in Westchester County and throughout New York State attain excellence in education for high needs school districts without sacrificing the quality of education that has already been attained in high performing school districts.”