…million. It would also cut another $61.8 million from community colleges, the equivalent of $226 per full time student over the academic year. After three years of painful funding reductions,…
…delivering on the Governor’s priorities, the Senate Republican budget protects the wealthy, cuts services to our most vulnerable New Yorkers, and fails to provide the relief our Middle Class families…
…are instead proposing: Senate: $72 million for detention services. Of this amount, up to $31 million may be available to counties to fund only 50 percent of community…
Reprint March 16, 2011 By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd – March 11, 2011 http://www.alternet.org Everybody knows the GOP’s biggest weakness is money, so why not hit ’em in the sweet spot?…
…alternatives, Stringer said in a letter John B. Mattingly, Commissioner for ACS, “has fallen woefully short” in providing meaningful assistance. The Borough President demanded that the City “try to help…
…in a more nurturing environment. Schools have always been competitive places, in academics and athletics and more. But this competition has historically taken place within the rubric of the spirit…
Progressive Democrats Issue Open Letter to Cuomo March 7, 2011 By Robert Jackson, NYC Counsil Member Dear Fellow Democrats: We are writing to express concerns about the direction of our…
…hearing of the Civil Rights, Civil Service and Labor, and Women’s Issues Committees, stating, “No one is questioning the need for more jobs in a city harmed by the recession,…
