In late January, I wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News that took issue with the position espoused a few days earlier in an op-ed by Paul Francis, currently a Deputy Secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and…
On May 20th, the Campaign for Educational Equity contributed legal, policy, and public-engagement findings and recommendations to “Public Education Funding Inequality in an Era of Increasing Concentration of Poverty and Resegregation,” a national U.S. Commission for Civil Rights briefing in…
Tying State School Aid to Policy Change Violates Students’ Rights School-Aid Amount Is Inadequate and Not Based on Student Need Even more problematic is that Governor Cuomo has ignored the Court of Appeals’ expectation that the state determine the actual…
Our team read with great relief that NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has acknowledged the horrifying fact that “a lot” of NYC elementary and middle schools have dropped social studies. She makes it crystal clear that, under her administration, depriving…
The Campaign for Educational Equity convened a major statewide conference last week titled, “Right Makes Might: Working Together to Ensure NY Students’ Right to a Sound Basic Education Now and for the Future.” Hosted at the New York State School…
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget proposals for 2014-15, while not without some bright points, were largely disappointing, ignoring the ongoing effects on our students — and the risk to New York’s economic future — of the state’s failure to meet…