In School Districts, 92 Percent of Budgets Passed
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Voters throughout New York Tuesday approved 92.2% of school district budgets, according to an analysis by the New York State School Boards Association.
Based on statewide results available by 9 a.m. today, voters passed 543 school district budgets and 46 were defeated. Final results had not yet been reported for another 83 districts. This represents a response of 88 percent.
“Across the state, despite very challenging economic times, a majority of residents cast their vote in support of their local schools,” said NYSSBA Executive Director Timothy G. Kremer. “For that, we are very grateful.”
The average proposed spending increase for schools is 5.3 percent, but the tax levy would rise an average of 3.4 percent statewide, down from 3.9 percent in 2007.
Last year, voters approved a record 95.5 percent of school budgets on the ballot, compared to 88.8 percent the year before. Prior to last year’s record 95.5 percent passage rate, the previous highest approval rate was 93.8 percent in 2003.
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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. 
