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Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Our Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook is now posted to our website. As a reminder, be sure you are maximizing your expenditures in the IMA categories by June 30th.  

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Maximum 2025-2026 STAR Exemption Savings Now Available

Maximum STAR Exemption Savings for 2025-26 is now available on NYS Department of Taxation and Finance website. If your district has multiple municipalities in it, use the maximum exemption for the municipality with the largest group of taxpayers for the Budget Notice.

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Maximum 2025-2026 STAR Exemption Savings Now Available

Maximum STAR Exemption Savings for 2025-26 is now available on NYS Department of Taxation and Finance website. If your district has multiple municipalities in it, use the maximum exemption for the municipality with the largest group of taxpayers for the Budget Notice.

SED Posts Budget Vote Contingency Memo

SED Posts Budget Vote Contingency Memo

To view SED’s memo on recommendations for your budget due to the State Budget not being passed at this time, please view here. Please note that the last paragraph provides guidance on information to be included with your budget documentation since the Financial...

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

SED Posts Budget Vote Contingency Memo

To view SED’s memo on recommendations for your budget due to the State Budget not being passed at this time, please view here. Please note that the last paragraph provides guidance on information to be included with your budget documentation since the Financial...

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Knowledge Café – April 16th at 9 am

Topics: SBO Calendar for May 2025, Kathy’s Corner – Required Information to Have on Your District’s Website, Review of Spring State Aid Reports and How to Read Them as You Plan for Year End – they can be tricky! Use the Knowledge Café link towards the middle of...

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Claims Verifications – Due April 25th

SED has opened the SAMS Claim Form Verifications, and your response and related submissions are due by April 25th. For any of the seven areas selected this year that have a “Y” next to them, you must first acknowledge that you have been selected and then complete the...

Instructional Materials Aid Guidebook

Summer School Payments

Approved Payment Report (APR) #01 for the 2024-25 School Year was only partially paid out in order to stay within the limit of the designated appropriation for this specific aid category for the current State Fiscal Year. The remaining amount will be paid out as an...