"The union contracts are what really set us apart from other states," he said. New York is one of only two states where teachers continue to get raises even after their labor contract expires.
The watchdog contrasted the nation-leading, Ivy League-level $36,293 average spent per student in New York with the state's middle-of-the-pack National Assessment of Educational Progress test scores.
Continuing to shovel more and more money every year to school districts without fundamentally questioning this status quo behavior will not solve this problem," the CBC report argued.
Employee benefits at that time were between 200% and 250% higher than the national average, according to the report from the Albany-based government watchdog group.
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