Category: Blog

The Governor says Micron is a great deal despite the price it will exact from the state’s taxpayers. But we haven’t seen the data and analysis explaining why. Read More

With inflation rampaging, the seven-percent increase in key federal tax code thresholds is the biggest one-year hike since key aspects of the IRS code were indexed to inflation. Read More

Results are in for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s report card. They paint a bleak picture for New York. Read More

New York’s statewide teachers union is providing a glimpse of its strategy to shrink and potentially eliminate New York’s charter schools. Read More

The New York State Board of Regents lowered the threshold to pass Regents examinations from a 65 to a 50 in order to ‘satisfy diploma requirements’ for the academic years disrupted by the pandemic. Read More

On November 8, New Yorkers will be voting on Proposal 1, the $4.2 billion “Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond.” Read More

Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa just set a new date, November 4, for releasing the statewide results of math and English exams. Read More

A state agency is refusing to release exam results revealing the nature and extent of Covid learning loss among New York schoolchildren. Read More