State budget negotiations will not start in earnest until the new year, but Gov. Hochul is already backing off a push to cut funding to New York school districts losing enrollment.

Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature earlier this year earmarked $2 million for the Rockefeller Institute of Government, an Albany-based think tank, to conduct an analysis of the state’s complex school aid formula known as Foundation Aid.

A new report on New York's public school funding looks at ways to update the complicated formula used to distribute billions to districts each year.

A study ordered by lawmakers found New York needs to overhaul its primary school aid formula and move away from long-standing financial protections that assures stable funding for school districts