Acting State Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O'Connor has ruled that Utica City School District and seven other small city school districts failed to prove the state has not provided students in their districts with a sound basic education.
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has settled the second of two lawsuits involving older refugee students in the Utica School District.
Senator Joseph Griffo and Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi are introducing legislation calling for an immediate remedy to the small city school districts funding lawsuit.
The court case that alleges the state has failed to provide a sound basic education for Utica and seven other small-city school districts is nearing its conclusion.
82 school districts across the state have been designated as fiscally stressed under State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's Fiscal Stress Monitoring System.