"It's a remarkable turnaround when you consider what happened last year when they held out to get more money for high needs schools and wound up with the latest budget in history," said Senator Schneiderman.
These considerations would strengthen vulnerability scores, particularly where geographic isolation reduces access to services for high needs populations.
Where geographic isolation reduces access to services for high needs populations, additional measures of disadvantage including indigeneity could strengthen vulnerability scores.
While we cannot comment on whether all services rendered in the FFS model are required, we can conclude that accommodation for higher needs is likely achieved.
Needs satisfaction approaches derive from Maslow's theory of human need, which proposes that once basic human needs are satisfied, such as food and safety, humans strive for higher needs such as self-happiness and esteem [ 19, 20].
Aggregate variables of socioeconomic disadvantage using SEIFA scores and possible use of individual variables such as car ownership, age and education level could provide additional weighting particularly for high needs remote communities.
Adding variables such as car ownership and an indigenous weighting in an index as seen in the Index of Rural Access could increase the score for high needs communities and more adequately indicate the level of service required.
A reserve of allocations could be available for high-need individuals thus meeting collectivist social objectives.
As Klinsmann doesn't call in new players for high-need positions, he instead opts to use the players he already has for those positions.
Joe Conway, a spokesman for the governor, said last night that Mr. Pataki had also called for overhauling the school funding formula and providing more money for high-need districts like New York.
Sheldon Silver, speaker of the State Assembly and a Democrat from Lower Manhattan, said the court ruling must translate into more money for high-needs districts across the state, not just the city.
