New York State United Teachers today launched a television and digital advertising campaign advocating for long overdue and necessary investment in Stony Brook University Hospital, Long Island’s premier academic medical center.

Student advocates gathered at the New York State Capitol in Albany to rally behind a New Deal for public higher education in the state.

America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids’ ability to learn.

A measure meant to provide free meals to students in all New York schools has gained support from seven Republicans in the state Assembly, a bipartisan show of support for the proposal ahead of Gov. Kathy Hochul's unveiling of her budget plan.

They're designed to be supporters of innovation, a free alternate option for families and students to explore, but some argue charter schools have gone too far.

Belokopitsky, executive director of the New York State Parent Teacher Association, is among the advocates urging state lawmakers to fund a program designed to provide free breakfast and lunch to more than 700,000 New York school children each day.

Healthy School Meals for All Coalition, representing more than 250 organizations across the state, is calling for healthy school meals for all New York State children. Albany should make it happen.

Schenectady is one of more than 100 districts throughout the state to move to a community school model. It’s a multi-layered approach, with the hope of building relationships with local partners to strengthen in classroom learning, while also helping families get the resources they need.

Labor unions and several lawmakers are insisting the state invest billions of more dollars in the upcoming budget to support SUNY and CUNY campuses and hospitals, pushing back against the proposed tuition hikes in Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal.

On Thursday at the Capitol, advocates called on state lawmakers to include more funding for higher education in the state budget.

SUNY and CUNY students and staff filled the halls of the state Capitol on Thursday advocating for a “New Deal” for higher education that proposes a $1.4 billion increase in operating aid for two-and four-year colleges across the state, along with SUNY hospitals.

In response to decades of underfunding for our state’s public higher education system, NYSUT, UUP, PSC, student groups and supporting lawmakers will gather on the Million Dollar Staircase to press state legislators for a New Deal for Higher Ed. 

On Wednesday I finished a busy week of travel that started last Saturday with a talk at the Latham, N.Y., headquarters of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), a federation of more than 1,300 local unions in New York State that encompasses pre-K to grade 12 educators, school staff, health-care professionals, higher education faculty and staff, and government professionals.

The COVID-19 pandemic cast a harsh light on disparities in neighborhood and family well-being, revealing the interrelated nature of the economic, social, and environmental factors that created and ...

At 11 a.m. Monday, Senator Michelle Hinchey and Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas joined lawmakers, students and anti-hunger advocates to call on Gov. Kathy Hochul to fund free school meals for all New York students in the next year’s state budget.