MCEC - Monroe County Education Coalition

Representing 60,000 Members

220 Idlewood Road, Rochester, NY 14618 (585) 328-1972 www.mcsba.org/mcec

POSITIONS

MONROE COUNTY
SALES TAX

NO CHILD LEFT
BEHIND

NO CHILD LEFT
BEHIND
(Joint Statement)

Asking the impossible

NYS public education:
Constitutional mandate

Promoting math, science,
technology (M,S,T)

Protecting programs
for our neediest students

What do we want
for our kids?

MCEC
Member
Groups

Genesee Valley
PTA

Monroe County
   Federation
   of Teachers

NYSUT
(NYS United Teachers)

Monroe County Association
   of School
   Business Officials

Monroe County Council
of School Superintendents

Monroe County School
Boards Association

Rochester City
School District

School Administrators
Association of NYS

   About
MCEC

Purpose of the
     Monroe County
     Education Coalition

     Members of the
     MCEC Steering
     Committee

MCEC Bulletins
on current issues

MCEC Brochure
our schools as an economic force

NYS officials
(contact info)


Monroe County & its suburban school districts settle sales tax lawsuit out of court At a news conference held on July 9, 2008 County Executive Maggie Brooks and MCSBA Executive Director Jody Siegle announced that the county and its suburban public schools had reached an agreement on restoring the sales tax revenue taken unilaterally by the county in September 2007. According to the terms of the agreement, the county will restore the former sales tax distribution formula, and fund schools according to the existing Morin-Ryan Sales Tax Distribution Plan with its 2009 budget, and will pay back the $29 million it owes its districts for 2008 over a multi-year period, beginning with the 2010 county budget. The agreement will allow tschool districts to control their dependence on property taxes in coming years. It also opens the door to collaboration among all sales tax partners to seek a resolution to the gap between expensive mandates imposed by state and federal governments and the ability of local taxpayers to pay for these mandates through property and sales taxes. Follow these links to learn more - Special Edition MCSBA Newsletter - July 9, 2008 Financial Impact on Schools Special Sales Tax Edition MCSBA Newsletter - October 4, 2007 Companion lawsuit on legality of County Legislature's action Q & A: Behind the myths to the facts	Click here to learn how our public schools serve our community


NCLB & Our Students The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was created to insure that all children in every American school were successful learners. The law's method for insuring this success is to penalize schools in which all children are not always successful. Federal funds were promised to cover the expenses of annual assessments and the services needed for academic interventions. These funds have not materialized. Since every student GROUP must demonstrate adequate yearly progress, every school in our nation will be labeled as needing improvement by 2014, which was the deadline established by the law for every student to be successful. To learn more about how this law affects your children and what changes should be applied to the law before Congress re-authorizes it as scheduled for this year, read these documents:
Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind Act (March 2007) Hundreds of national/federal groups--education, civil rights, faith-based, children's advocacy, and disability-- have signed a statement describing ways in which the NCLB law must be changed.
Refine NCLB so No Child is Left Behind This statement by Monroe County School Boards Association compares the intended benefits with actual results, and recommends changes to improve the law.

The address and phone number for MCEC are identical to those for the Monroe County School Boards Association.