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LI school cuts may be sharpest in 20 years

Students work on a project at Oxhead Elementary

Photo credit: Newsday/ J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Students work on a project at Oxhead Elementary School in Centereach. (Dec. 14, 2010)

As Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo readies plans for statewide curbs on educational spending and taxes, Long Island schools are bracing for losses of teachers and student services - potentially the sharpest in 20 years.

Threatened reductions in programs ranging from sports to tutoring are prompting school districts to call on Albany to relax laws known as mandates, which drive up educational costs. As...

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