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"The Poster Child for Education Funding Reform" - State and school officials

By Susan Barnett

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Newburgh, ny – An agreement on the reassessment of two Orange County power plants has left a school district facing tax increases as high as fifty percent. And that, district officials and legislators say, is a textbook example of the need for education funding reform in New York. Hudson Valley bureau chief Susan Barnett reports.