January 31, 2006.  Balancing New York State's 2006-07 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner (PDF). This is an updated and revised version of the Fiscal Policy Institute's analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2005-2006 budget. See pages 28, 29 and 42 through 57 for FPI's latest analysis of school funding issues.

Fall 2005.  Fair Taxes: The Key to Better Schools. A Training Curriculum prepared by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York and the Fiscal Policy Institute.

September 15, 2005.  FISCAL POLICY NOTE$: New National Report Offers Sobering Look at Trends in New York's Early Childhood Education Workforce. (PDF)

June 2005.  Funding a Sound Basic Education for All New York's Children.  This issue brief is an updated and condensed version of FPI's original January 1999 report on this subject. The update is based on: the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's Schools for New York's Future Act, FPI's analysis of the fiscal implications of that proposal, and the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy's April 2005 report on Achieving Adequacy: Tax Options for New York in the Wake of the CFE Case.

March 25, 2005.  Simulations of the fiscal impact, on a district-by-district basis,  of the Schools for New York's Future Act, prepared by the Fiscal Policy Institute for for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

January 25, 2005.  Balancing New York State's 2005-2006 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner. (PDF) This is the Fiscal Policy Institute's briefing book on Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2005-2006 budget.  See pages 16 through 24 for FPI's analysis of the economic impact of the Legislature's 2003 decisions to avoid deep cuts in aid to public schools and to add two temporary top rates to the state income tax; and pages 33 through 37 for FPI's analysis of the Governor's school aid proposals for 2995-06.

November 17, 2004.  Calculating the Cost of a Sound Basic Education. A supplemental affidavit submitted by FPI to the three court-appointed referees in the landmark school funding adequacy case (Campaign for Fiscal Equity vs. New York State).  This supplemental affidavit and an earlier October  26, 2004 affidavit were prepared in response to questions from the referees regarding regional cost indices, the state government's "cost effectiveness" filter and weightings for poverty and other special needs. In these affidavits, Mauro responds to questions from the referees regarding regional cost indices, the "cost effectiveness" filter and the student weightings implicit in the AIR/MAP costing out study. (PDF)