Schools want average of 2 percent tax-levy hike
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This year’s report cards on proposed school spending shows that districts would increase spending by an average of 2.35 percent, and the average tax levy would go up 1.89 percent. Both figures are well below what they were in recent years, according to New York State United Teachers, the state’s largest teachers union:
Average spending increase:
2004-05—6.29 percent
2005-06—6.1 percent
2006-07—5.86 percent
2007-08—5.94 percent
2008-09—5.27 percent
2009-10—2.35 percent
Average statewide tax levy increase:
2004-05—8.26 percent
2005-06—6.94 percent
2006-07—5.91 percent
2007-08—3.79 percent
2008-09—3.26 percent
2009-10—1.89 percent.
School districts are required to submit these report cards to the state before the school budget vote each year. It is being held May 19 this year. So far, 661 districts have filed their report cards. The Big Five city school districts don’t have to do this because residents don’t vote on their school budget.
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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. 
