It wasn't quite the washout that Governor David Paterson was predicting, but budgets in four Westchester school districts were rejected by voters on Tuesday. Budgets in Ossining, Katonah-Lewisboro, Mount Vernon and Pocantico Hills went down to defeat. The school spending plan in Pleasantville passed but by a razor-thin margin of just 11 votes.

School districts now have the option of reworking the budget and putting it up for a second vote in June, or else move directly to a contingency budget right away, which will leave the school with a bare-bones curriculum and typically no sports or extracurricular activities.If a school budget is defeated on a second vote, a contingency budget automatically takes effect.