It would send more than $60 million in recurring state aid to the Yonkers schools.

One of the major gripes is that the Yonkers schools are too crowded.

Yonkers schools offer magnet programs, meaning parents can select any school in the district if space is available.

Another correspondent told me that her parents had graduated with my father in 1912 from a Yonkers high school.

As is the case every year, a politician has come through with the answer and helped the Yonkers schools squeak by once again.

He said the Yonkers schools, especially, are being shortchanged by the state.

It is long past time for sound, basic fiscal management of the Yonkers schools.

Yonkers schools were closed the entire week of the blizzard.

Provides $10 million in emergency aid to the Yonkers schools.

"This is a great day for Yonkers public schools," he said.