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Cuomo cuts include $250M hit to LI school aid

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday proposed cutting nearly $250 million in Long Island's school aid - the biggest planned reduction in 20 years - as part of a broader plan that, he said, would erase the state's deficit and set it "on a new path toward prosperity."

Locally, however, many educators contend their schools would be taking a disproportionate share of the statewide hit. As a region, the...

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