65 Seconds to Spend $28 Million: How BOCES Budgets Get Approved
At 7:30 PM on April 23, 2025, the Jericho Board of Education convened for a special meeting with one agenda item: approving Nassau BOCES’ $27.9 million administrative budget for the coming year. The entire meeting lasted 65 seconds. The Process by Design “Hope everybody’s doing well,” the board president began casually. “Again, uh, this is […]
Nassau BOCES’ $947 Million Time Bomb: Why Your School Taxes Must Rise
The Math Doesn’t Lie: 56 School Districts Face Inevitable Cost Increases as BOCES Grapples with Completely Unfunded Retiree Healthcare Debt Nassau BOCES has a $946.7 million problem with no solution in sight. This staggering liability for retiree healthcare benefits sits completely unfunded on their balance sheet, growing by $110 million last year alone. And there’s […]
Our Response to Nassau BOCES and Thomas M. Volz, Esq.
On September 18, Nassau BOCES had their attorney, Thomas M. Volz, send us a cease-and-desist letter over our September 9 article. Below is our point-by-point response. We’re publishing it openly, because taxpayer-funded legal threats deserve taxpayer-funded sunlight. Volz Letter:“The Nassau BOCES logo is protected and proprietary. You failed to seek or obtain permission to use […]