State education officials fight BOCES changes
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- March
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    State Education Commissioner Richard Mills asked members of the Assembly Education Committee Wednesday to reject Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s proposal to give the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services $32 million less in 2008-09 than it receives currently.
  BOCES was founded in 1948 to provide shared educational programs and services to districts around the state. There are 37 boards today.
  “BOCES was created by people who came long before us to provide high-quality, low-cost services,” Mills said. “Virtually all the school districts are part of the BOCES.”
  Spitzer spokesman Matt Anderson said the governor’s administration is proposing to change the BOCES funding formula for the first time since the 1960s. The current formula only measures property wealthy of a district, and the new one would take property and income wealth into account. With the change, about 200 districts would see increases in BOCES aid and approximately 400 would get decreases, he said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
