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
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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
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
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
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
Micron says it intends to invest $20 billion by 2030 in a single “Mega-fab” and up to $100 billion in total over the next 20 years Read More
If it’s not yet a failure, the commission to revamp the Long Island Power Authority is at least already a fiasco. Read More
New York bureaucrats are ditching standards for what children in public schools should learn. Why are they increasing their imposition on yeshivas? Read More
Graduation rates are rising while standards for graduation are falling. It begs the question: What number of graduating students are college ready? Read More
The announcement that Micron Technologies will build a computer-chip plant in Onondaga County comes with an important condition that will deliberately hike the price tag. Read More