Increase in Aid Allocations to RCSD from the State

The News Review and the North Shore Sun recently ran two excellent articles reviewing the increase in district aid that each of the area schools received as a result of the recent approval of school aid by the NY State Legislature.

Riverhead realized an increase of 2.38%. The legislature's budgeted amount is $358,737 more in aid than the previous year; however, the district anticipated $100,000 more in aid than the governor's budget allocated in their proposed 2004-05 budget.

To read more about the State figures, see "State aid to ed inches up" by Tim Gannon in the News Review at www.riverheadnewsreview.com (http://www.timesreview.com/nr08-12-04/index.htm) and "Legislature approves more cash for schools" in the North Shore Sun by Nicole Cotroneo at www.northshoresun.com (http://www.northshoresun.com/sun08-13-04/index.htm).

These two articles also provide an overview of the differences in State Aid from district to district.