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Trustee raises alarm over BOCES transportation spike; superintendent urges Foundation Aid changes
Summary
A trustee highlighted a roughly 70% projected increase in BOCES transportation costs; Superintendent Dr. Lynch said New York's updated poverty data will raise Lynbrook's Foundation Aid by about $1 million but urged further formula changes.
A Lynbrook board member told trustees the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) transportation budget for the region is projected to rise sharply, and the superintendent urged continued state action to update school funding formulas.
“For this upcoming school year, the budget will be $16,900,000. That's BOCES. That's not us. That's over a 70% increase,” a trustee said during the board’s BOCES budget report, contrasting prior years’ transportation budgets of about $8.4 million and $9.5…
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