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Rebooting Smart Schools
The Smart Schools grant-making process has been sluggish and haphazard, reflecting the program’s overly broad standards and goals.
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NY’s stratospheric school spending
Besides having the country's highest per-pupil PreK-12 spending, every New York school district spent more than the national average on a per-pupil basis.
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Upstate population drop continues; 46 of 62 NY counties down since 2010
The population of upstate New York declined by another 23,434 people between 2015 and 2016, while the population increase downstate slowed markedly.
Nine Years of SeeThroughNY
This summer, the Empire Center for Public Policy celebrated nine years of successful work by SeeThroughNY.net, our groundbreaking government transparency website.
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NYTorch Blog
View AllTrouble on NY’s budget horizon
New York State's tax collections fell short of the mark in the first half of the fiscal year, pointing to a gloomier outlook for fiscal 2018.
