George E. Pataki
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George E. Pataki Pataki
The Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, ruled that students in New York City were being denied a sound basic education and ordered the Legislature and the governor to address the problem, but both the Legislature and Gov. George E. Pataki have avoided dealing with court decisions in the past as the school-financing case wound its way through the courts. In 2004, Mr. Pataki proposed a plan to increase the financing for city schools by $4.7 billion, which would have been phased in over five years.