The Empire Center for Public Policy also posts salary information on other public employees from the state, counties, cities, towns and villages across New York. The group's study found average school-employee pay varies wildly across the state, w Read More
Over the weekend, we reported that in Erie and Niagara counties, 35 public school employees were each paid more than $150,000 last year. Here's the complete list. Administrators in the Williamsville School District are the best-paid in the region. Read More
Ballot Counts Won't Be AccurateCandidates trailing in the state's undecided races are demanding manual tallies to ensure accurate counts. But counts are never accurate, according to Charles Seife, an NYU professor whose book Proofiness analyzes ballo Read More
Since being elected two weeks ago, Gov-elect Andrew Cuomo has shed little light on how he will deal with many key issues, including digging the state out of a rapidly growing deficit. From pension reform to Medicaid to unemployment insurance, majo Read More
Public employee unions will respond to whatever pension benefit cuts Andrew Cuomo proposes by noting that the average state pension in New York is just $16,000 per year. But the governor-elect will be able to say that figure is low because it include Read More
Thanks to the World Wide Web, finding out what a teacher or principal is making is just a few mouse clicks away. A searchable online database for 402,896 employees of New York state school districts outside New York City has been posted at www.S Read More
After the State University of New York at Albany announced plans to eliminate five departments, including French, and 160 full-time faculty positions, dozens of students demonstrated, carrying signs that read, “Don't Kill French” and “Academics Read More