Hochul’s budget looks to revamp state workforce
In an effort to rebuild a state public workforce significantly diminished by the pandemic, Governor Kathy Hochul last week unveiled an executive budget that dedicates nearly $19 million to employment-creating initiatives for New York’s public sector.
New York education unions call for higher education funding
Education unions in New York on Tuesday called for $4.7 billion in spending for higher education programs in the state ahead of a potential tuition increase at public colleges and universities.
Gov. Hochul increases CUNY funding and tuition
Gov. Kathy Hochul increased funding for CUNY in her recent budgeting proposal, but her 2023 briefing book proposes indexing the increases to the Higher Education Price Index, or 3% for both SUNY and CUNY.
CUNY Is the People’s University. Austerity Is Killing It.
The City University of New York is the crown jewel of the city’s once-robust welfare state, a vital resource for working-class New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are starving it.
Hochul announces largest school aid funding in New York history, including 100% state-funded Foundation Aid formula
Schools are big winners in Governor Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion executive budget, which includes a massive infusion in public education and a fully state-funded Foundation Aid formula program to close the learning gap across New York.
With deadline passed, Medicare amendment appears doomed: But PSC union’s ‘third way’ proposal has some traction
The city’s oft-stalled intention to switch roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers to a private Medicare provider from their traditional Medicare plan will go ahead without affording the retirees an option to keep a popular health program.
Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is showing no signs of stopping an already-delayed plan to switch 250,000 retired municipal workers from traditional Medicare to a private Medicare Advantage plan – with or without the cooperation of the City Council or the support of retirees themselves.
CUNY requires students and employees to be fully vaccinated for Spring semester, but no need for boosters
CUNY students, faculty, and staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend spring classes, although they do not have to show that they have got booster shots, CUNY officials recently announced.
Adams Blasted for Proposed Library Cuts
Library staff, community leaders, students, and parents on Tuesday evening rallied against proposed budget cuts for libraries citywide in front of Queens Borough Public Library’s Sunnyside branch.
Responses to the State of the State, NYC Budget
Statement on Governor Hochul’s State of the State We are heartened to see Gov. Hochul commit to continuing implementation of her vision for the transformation of our state’s higher education system in her State of the State policy book. After years of public disinvestment, she committed last year to increase…
