From 1995 to 2010, schools in New York increased spending 50% AFTER INFLATION.  Many schools in the capital region now spend more money per student than the most prestigious private schools in the area.  Please stop insulting our intelligence and telling us that we need to vote to increase school spending.  It is time to make cuts to the school budgets just like all other individuals and corporations have had to make in this terrible economy.

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/expenditures/tables/table_05.asp