The Floral Park-Bellerose School District will receive $2,424,448 in school aid for 1998-99, an increase of nearly 17 percent over last year, under the state budget plan adopted by the legislature Wednesday.

Other area school districts seeing big increases in state funding include Elmont, which is earmarked to receive $9,520,902 this year, an increase of 11.26 percent; Franklin Square, which will receive $3,437,601, a jump of 11.83 percent; and Sewanhaka, which is to get $14,248,750, an increase of 9.84 percent.

West Hempstead will receive $4,612,336, or 6.78 percent more than last year.

All of this comes as part of an unprecedented $11.9 billion set aside for education in the $71.46-billion budget approved by the legislature and now awaiting the governor's signature.

Armed with a $2.1 billion surplus from last year's budget and lobbied hard by everyone from the State Education Department's Board of Regents to local school superintendents, lawmakers literally deluged the states public school districts with money, some Long Island districts receiving more than a 25 percent increase in aid.

In addition to the $11.9 billion aid package, the new budget also includes $500 million for school construction to be implemented over the next four years, and plums for students attending the state university system, including a $65-a-student annual credit toward textbooks, and an almost $9 million allocation to the state university system to hire new faculty members.

"Needless to say, I am very, very pleased," said Assemblyman Tom Alfano. "The numbers, in terms of increase in aid, actually are two percentage points higher than what the governor had proposed. This aid package shatters the record, I think. It's better than any of us had even hoped for."

Governor George Pataki now has 10 days to decide whether or not to sign the budget into law, or to use his line item veto power to trim some proposals. As this newspaper went to press, he had not publicly commented on the legislature's spending plan.

However, the governor's budget director, Robert King, issued a statement saying that analysts will now examine the entire budget document, which increases overall state spending by about 8.5 percent over last year.

If adopted, the state will have its earliest budget since 1993. In recent years the prolonged negotiations over the budget have stretched into June at least. Last year they lasted into August.