this Case, August 19, 2011 In 2007, in response to Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York . . . the Legislature enacted . . . . increased school aid, called Foundation Aid, to all the school districts in the State based on a funding formula that takes into account the needs of the students and districts. (p. 1) *
[T]he long-term formulaic changes
embodied in the 2007 legislation . . . were enacted to reflect the estimated cost of providing a constitutionally adequate education in this State (p. 8)
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State of New York, in Brief
Submitted to Supreme Court in this Case, January 25, 2016 Plaintiffs assertion that Foundation Aid as originally enacted in 2007 represented the minimum spending necessary for providing the opportunity for a sound basic education . . . . is severely flawed and should be rejected (p. 10) *
Foundation Aid as adopted by the
Legislature in 2007 was never intended to represent the constitutional definition of the resources necessary to provide a sound basic education (p. 14)