Last week, in a striking decision, a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division, Third Department, ruled unanimously that the plaintiffs in each of eight small-city New York school districts (Jamestown, Kingston, Mount Vernon, Newburgh, Niagara Falls, Port Jervis, Poughkeepsie and…
The New York State Legislature did something extraordinary for schoolchildren last week: It committed to increasing state education aid by $4.2 billion over the next three years to honor the pledge the state made in 2007 to fully fund the…
We’ve compiled state and federal information to answer your questions about the New York education budget. This year, New York State’s budget situation and budget negotiations have been complicated (but also made much easier) by the large infusion of federal…
Last week, Governor Cuomo released his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. As expected, the governor’s budget promises austerity measures in response to the fiscal crisis that has resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. It also details how the governor…
Plaintiffs will appeal, saying the decision gives them a road map to the First Circuit Judge William Smith of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island yesterday issued his long-awaited decision in Cook v. Raimondo, a case filed by a…
This Op-Ed originally appeared in the August 22nd edition of the New York Daily News, found here. In the coming school year, public school districts will confront escalating costs as they strive to meet students’ increased needs during the coronavirus…
An extensive study of collective impact, community schools, and other comprehensive educational opportunity initiatives in eight cities concludes they are a calming force and “show promise.” For the past four years, CEE Executive Director Michael A. Rebell and Policy and…
On April 23rd, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a landmark decision in the Gary B. v. Whitmer case, holding that there is a “fundamental right to a basic minimum education” under the U.S. Constitution. The…
Paul Francis, deputy secretary for health and human services under Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wrote in an op-ed in yesterday’s N.Y. Daily News that the objections that public-school parents, education-law scholars, and advocates have lodged to the governor’s ongoing failure to…
Never Again, the activist gun control movement initiated last February by students who survived the Parkland school shooting, has had an enormous impact. Major gun retailers have stopped selling assault rifles and raised the age for buying guns. Major corporations…