Kings Park School Aid Sees Large Boost in Final State Budget

With state Assembly members poised to vote on a final budget on Thursday, state leaders announced Wednesday school aid totals for the 2013-2014 budget year, which will increase aid next year to Kings Park School District by about $1 million – or about $700,000 more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo had originally proposed.

The district had been originally proposed in the governor's budget to receive a boost in state funding of about 2.67 percent, to $13,744,482. However since the executive budget was released in late January, legislators have lobbied to restore funding to schools.

State Sen. John Flanagan, R-Northport, the chair of the State Senate Education Committee, said in a recent interview that though education was the largest growth area in the budget, "we don't agree with the distribution of that, and that's where we will have a lot of the debate."

Kings Park's total aid – $14,452,388 – represents a 7.37 percent increase over last year. 

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