Governor Cuomo's proposed 'Executive Budget and Reform Plan' has lots of educators crunching numbers.

School reform is high on the agenda, and the Cuomo is offering a four percent increase in state aid to school districts--but not across the board, and with conditions.

The increase is tied to teacher evaluations, and there's a three-step plan for that:   The governor is giving the State Education Department and teachers' unions 30 days to resolve their lawsuit over evaluations.  If it's not done, he says the state will step in and resolve the dispute.  Then, districts have to put evaluation plans in place:  "And we have two dates," says the governor.  "For those who get it done by September One, the beginning of the next school year, they'll get an incentive bonus by participating in the competitive pool.  The end date is January 17, a year from today. If they don't have it in place by that point of time, they won't get the state increase."  And Gov. Cuomo says schools could actually lose money if the evaluation plans are not implemented:  New York got $700-million dollars in federal Race to the Top moneys, based in part on doing evaluations.  Now the feds want the money back, because none of the state's 758 districts have evaluation plans in place.
"So the equation is simple," says the governor.  "At the end of the day, no evaluations, no money.period.  If we are serious about education, we really have no choice.  It's not just losing 700 million dollars.  This is the way to reform education."

But not all educators are sure: 
~Syracuse Schools say the 4% increase would mean about $5million more, but they'd still be $20-25million in the hole. And, Suzanne Slack, the Chief Financial Officer for Syracuse City Schools, says the 'incentive' plan is scary:  that if staffers are hired assuming the money is coming, and the evaluation plan is not approved, the state could take the money back.
~West Genesee school superintendent Chris Black is concerned about plans to weight the aid toward 'needy' districts.
West Genesee is considered 'average' for income levels of residents, and he's worried that they could end up losing money, even with the evaluation plan bonus.  They expect to have their plan in place this July.

The school budget numbers, showing which districts would gain and which would lose moneys, are just coming in.
You can find your district, in the Division of Budget summary.