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Feds boost LI school aid, but Albany may cut back more
Quick ReadTotal aid of $2.32 billion is 3.4 percent less than last year's total.
Photo credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles Stabile | On the first day of class at the Dryden Street school in Westbury, teacher Brenda Bazalar reads a book to her kindergarten class. (Sept. 8, 2009)
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Long Island school districts, aided by a last-minute infusion of federal funds intended to help save teachers' jobs, will still find themselves at least $80 million short of last year's state aid figure - a big drop, but not nearly as large as originally feared.
Total aid of $2.32 billion is 3.4 percent less than last year's total.
And there likely is another cut of as much as $20 million...
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