Tag: Education

Due to a quirk in state law, roughly 10,000 mostly low income and minority kids in New York City are being denied the charter school seats their parents covet for them. Read More

The property tax cap has an extraordinary record of restraining tax hikes without unduly straining education budgets. Read More

The number of retired New York City educators who received six-figure pension payouts rose forty-five percent in 2021. Read More

New Yorkers can now view a district-by-district comparison of public school enrollment rates, thanks to new data mapped by the Empire Center. Read More

Empire Center director of research Peter Warren testifies on K-12 education. Read More

New York’s public schools lost almost 60,000 students — 2.38 percent of their total student population —in the past year alone Read More

Average pension benefits for newly retired public educators outside New York City reached a record high last year Read More

Albany, NY — New York suffered a net loss of about 1.4 million residents to other states during the past decade. With those residents went businesses and jobs, perpetuating a cycle of loss for the Empire State. “The State of Read More