Pelham Schools' State Aid Bump

The Pelham School District is going to get a bit more cash for its 2013-2014 school year from the State of New York. The additional cash is due to lawmakers' new budget, which was recently passed.

Pelham will now receive about $5,500,000, which is an increase of about $100,000 from the previous year. That boils down to a 1.8% bump from the 2012-2013 school year.

The new State of New York spending plan increases funding for state schools by $55 million, which works out to a total of $1.9 billion for the Empire State.

“The budget is about three things,” Cuomo said, according to Buffalo News' Jane Kwiatkowski. “It’s about helping your family. It’s about creating jobs, and it’s about increasing education. It starts with the family because this budget recognizes the economic pressures that families in this state are under. Talking about economic cycles, we’ve been down for a long, long time."

Cuomo says the new budget focuses on improved student performance and accountability.