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Would you be in favor of a tax increase for education?
Education Week gives New York State high rankings for the amount money it devotes to education, but it gets a D+ for "resource equity," which refers to how that money is divided between districts.
Read a statistical profile of the state's public schools.
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"We have to have smaller classes... we've to go have pre-K programs... we have to bring about parental involvement... We can pay for [an additional $8 billion for education] without any increase in taxes."
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H. Carl McCall (D)
 
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"Because something is not going as well as we might expect it to, to throw more money at it is not generally the right thing to do."
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Tom Golisano (I)
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"This year New York public schools will get $4.9 billion more from the State of New York than they did seven years ago -- record increases so that we can put the resources into the classroom."
(10/13/02) ... (more)
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George Pataki (R)
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"No matter how much money we seem to pour into [education], it seems like Soviet agriculture... Real spending on education has risen about 50% in the last twenty years, to no effect."
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Fred Siegel
Historian and Political Analyst
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