Grisanti sends request to Skelos for education investment tax credit to be included as part of final 2014-15 state budget

State Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-I-60, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos requesting Senate Bill S4099, better known as the education investment tax credit, be included in the 2014-15 state budget. 

Yesterday, the Very Rev. Richard Malone, bishop of Buffalo, announced 10 Catholic schools in the Western New York area will be permanently closing at the end of the current school year, displacing 1,154 students (K-8) and 195 faculty and staff.

Grisanti is the only Western New York senator co-sponsoring this measure, which previously passed the Senate in 2011 and 2012, with no action being taken on the legislation by the Assembly.

In the letter to Skelos, Grisanti said: "Catholic and other schools in Western New York and throughout the state are under tremendous financial pressure not for lack of desire or demand, but due to low-income and middle class families that are losing the financial struggle to provide this needed educational opportunity for their children."

The entire letter can be viewed here.