Oppenheimer said Dems will fight mid-year education cuts
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State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer, D-Mamaroneck, left The Hall Monitor a voicemail yesterday after deadline to give her views on Gov. David Paterson’s proposed cuts in state education aid and on today’s emergency legislative session. She was responding to calls I made to her office in relation to today’s story on local school districts lobbying legislators to fight the mid-year cuts. Read that story here.
Oppenheimer said most of the representatives in the Senate Democratic Conference, which met yesterday, are opposed to mid-year cuts but expect that major cuts will have to be made in the 2009-10 school year. Before the conference meeting, Oppenheimer met with a group of local superintendents and school officials to discuss the cuts.
“It’s my personal belief that we will not make major cuts to education in the middle of the year,” Oppenheimer said in the voicemail. “Contracts have already been signed, various programs have already been paid for, the vendors have to be paid. There’s no way to make up when you have this kind of reduction in the course of the year. We do understand that next session we are going to have to make serious cuts, but most of us believe that it shouldn’t happen now.”
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