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Polls will be open on May 18 from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. (Shutterstock)
BABYLON, NY Residents in the Babylon School District will head to the polls next week to cast their ballots for a proposed school budget and to elect school board trustees.
Polls will be open on May 18 from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Babylon Junior-Senior High School East Gym.
The Board of Education is proposing a $56.4 million budget for the 2021-22 school year.
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That represents a 1.46 percent spending increase over the current year and it comes with a 1.28 percent hike in the school tax levy.
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School district residents go to the polls on May 18 to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year. Below are the details on the ballots in 124 districts. Results will be posted here as they become available.
Read our full coverage of the results here.
The Great Neck, Lawrence, Hewlett-Woodmere and West Hempstead districts received permission from the state to hold voting on May 11, before the statewide date of May 18, which is also the date of the Jewish holiday Shavuot.
Get more information on school district budget and tax plans here, and see last year s election results here. Sign up for The Classroom, Newsday s education newsletter, here.
Implement all actions from the [email protected] report
Implement the Uluru Statement From the Heart
Create sufficient stock of quality social housing so that housing becomes a right, not a wait list
Acknowledge women’s lifetime earning deficit with a corresponding discount on all tertiary education and bonus on superannuation
Implement minimum 40% management/board quotas for all public bodies, political parties and publicly owned companies
Pay childcare workers and aged care workers like they’re doing the most important damn job in the country, because they are, and take these sectors away from for profit
Compulsory annual consent training for each year of schooling from grade 6 to 12 and for all public bodies (including parliament) and public companies.