State Lawmakers Ruch to Fix Educational Aid System - 2004-01-04
State aid to schools, normally the topic of the most impassioned disputes in the capital, is certain to dominate the upcoming legislative session in a way not seen before as lawmakers scramble to meet a judicially-imposed deadline to ensure New York City schoolchildren are adequately educated.
That legal mandate only extends to the city's schools, and there is some talk among Senate Republicans of requiring the city to come up with any more money it needs, perhaps by allowing the expansion of gambling in Off-Track Betting parlors.
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