Bright spots in the budget include a substantial commitment to converting struggling schools into community schools that provide important health, academic, and social supports to students and their families. The foundation-aid increase includes $100 million earmarked for school districts to…
At the end of 2015, Congress finally enacted a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which now will be known as the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA). Our highly polarized Congress was eight years late in reconsidering…
Governor Andrew Cuomo raised expectations when he said in his State of the State and budget address, “Let’s make a big change.” His budget proposals for education, however, fall far short of the change students’ need. For 2016-17, the governor…
Advocates for educational opportunity for all students, as well as the legal world, suffered an enormous loss when Judith Kaye, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, passed away last week at the age of 77. Judge…
Earlier today, CEE released a new report, Supporting Learning through Better Health: A Strategy to Ensure Adequate and Stable Funding for School-Based Health Centers in New York State, which outlines a financing strategy that would promote the expansion of school-based…
The 2015-16 New York State budget has now been enacted by the legislature and signed into law by the governor. This budget increases state aid to education by approximately $1.3 billion, which will provide an average 6% increase in aid…
Yesterday, the New York Times, which two years ago published an article about our research revealing the effects of the state’s systemic failure to ensure that all students can access at least a basic set of educational opportunities, called on…
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…
Governor Cuomo, the New York State Legislature, and the State Education Department have failed to assess and minimize the harmful impact of budget cuts on the educational rights of New York children. In light of the state’s failure to fulfill…