School budgets: Horseheads residents will see tax increase, Elmira holds the line on taxes yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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An increase in state and federal aid in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic enabled school districts to keep the tax rate fairly stable, despite a proposed increase in spending in many instances.
Around the state, school districts are averaging a 2.9% spending increase and are seeking to raise the tax levy the total amount of property taxes collected by 1.4%, according to state Department of Education records.
Property owners within the Corning-Painted Post City School District will see a tax levy increase of 1.37% on the $118,111,924 proposed budget, but according to Superintendent Michelle Caulfield, the full value tax rate will decrease from $23.39 to $23.25 per $1,000 assessed property value.
COVID brought a year of tests for Southern Tier schools and students the-leader.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from the-leader.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Since the beginning of the school year, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested local school districts.
Teachers and administrators have been forced to rethink education, but in doing so, they ve also fostered innovation, creating elements of pandemic learning which could become permanent fixtures of their learning models.
Now, district leaders across the Southern Tier look to the end of the 2020-2021 school year on the horizon with a shared goal: as many students in the school buildings for as many days a week they can safely manage.
Getting there will look different in every district, their paths driven by the particular and in some cases contrasting challenges faced by rural, urban and suburban schools.
COVID brought a year of tests for Southern Tier schools and students eveningtribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eveningtribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.