Education Week just announced that New York state leads the nation in education standards, quality tests and accountability. The national experts at Education Trust cited New York's progress in closing the gap for children in poverty. New York leads the nation in the prestigious Intel science competition. We lead the nation in AP and SAT participation. Test scores are rising, students are working to higher standards than ever before and voters last spring approved 95 percent of school budgets  - the highest rate in state history.

Why would we jeopardize this progress with arbitrary tax caps?

Research shows they erode local control, dismantle strong district programs and penalize the poorest communities.

New York's students are learning  - don't cap their futures.

Take action!

• Tell your state representatives not to cap our children's future

Update 4/29

• How would a tax cap impact your school district's funding?
• NY Times: A hunger for a property-tax cap, but the teachers' union isn't feeling it

Update 4/23

• Lubin urges rejection of tax cap
• NYSUT Testimony to the Commission on Property Tax Relief
• Media Release: Proposed tax cap 'bad policy' for state's school children

Update 3/13

• Transition in Albany raises questions on property tax cap, education endowment.. Albany Times Union.

Learn more

• Property tax caps would limit educational investment
• Research shows negative effects of property tax caps
• Success stories: Celebrating progress in public education
• Voters approve a record 95.5 percent of school budgets

NYSUT has launched a communications campaign portraying students in mortarboards, with the message, "The right kind of cap." The campaign message is two-fold: first, to highlight the progress students are making and the importance of education as the engine to New York's economy, and to share concerns about the dangers of an arbitrary cap on school taxes. The campaign includes information on the impact of tax cap plans in other states; and ways to reduce local property tax burdens without removing local control or jeopardizing the progress students are making in working to higher standards.