Just what school districts need.
If, in fact, we face—here comes everyone’s favorite governmental word—sequestration on March 1, school districts could face cuts in federal funding.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey’s office says that districts in Westchester and Rockland could lose $4.4 million in Title I funds—which go to disadvantaged students—and IDEA funds, which go toward education for children with disabilities.
Here is her office’s district-by-district breakdown of potential loses:
- $15,264 for Blink Brook-Rye
- $22,378 for Briarcliff Manor
- $29,909 for Byram Hills
- $41,999 for Chappaqua
- $121,614 for Clarkstown
- $18,931 for Croton-Harmon
- $48,325 for Dobbs Ferry
- $843,520 for East Ramapo
- $20,350 for Elmsford
- $46,042 for Greenburgh Central 7
- $54,770 for Harrison
- $41,010 for Hendrick Hudson
- $163,121 for Haverstraw-Stony Point (North Rockland)
- $20,877 for Irvington
- $94,784 for Lakeland
- $25,830 for Mount Pleasant
- $30,397 for Nanuet
- $50,067 for Nyack
- $83,976 for Ossining
- $33,620 for Pearl River
- $92,043 for Peekskill.
- $36,327 for Pleasantville
- $6,898 for Pocantico Hills
- $119,589 for Port Chester-Rye
- $78,796 for Ramapo
- $20,055 for Rye Neck
- $56,369 for South Orangetown
- $60,580 for Tarrytowns
- $22,566 for Valhalla
- $156,363 for White Plains
- $51,661 for Yorktown
