Education Funding

The Empire State Teacher Residency Program will help teaching assistants in the city of Syracuse earn their master's degrees at little cost.

School districts across the state are holding votes on their budgets Tuesday. While almost all of them are keeping their spending requests within the…

Several central and northern New York legislators are praising the state's new budget as a win for the region's schools, but they say it was a hard-fought…

The Alliance for Quality Education says Gov. Andrew Cuomo is misleading the public in a debate about school funding. The school advocacy group has…

A committee of the New York State Board of Regents recommends spending $2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it’s time to continue…

It’s been 10 years since New York’s highest court ordered that more state money be paid to schools with the poorest children. But advocates say that since…

The issue of whether to tax the wealthiest New Yorkers at a higher rate is once again a topic at the State Capitol. Assembly Democrats are out with a tax…

Eight years after the stock market crash and the start of the recession, the New York state Senate leader say it’s time to get rid of a law that limits…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his State of the State message and $143 billion budget spending plan, which includes nearly $1 billion more for schools next…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said it again and again, universal pre-kindergarten is a big priority. Last year, the legislature approved a $340 million program to…