Letter To Albany Lawmakers: Increase Funding for High School CTE Students

“If we agree that “not every student is college-bound,” then they, too, deserve the same state-funded support as those who choose to attend college for their post-graduation future” April, 21, 2024 NY State Senator Monica Martinez martinez@nysenate.gov NY State Senator Alexis Weik weik@nysenate.gov NY Assemblyman Michael Durso dursom@nyassembly.gov NY Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre  jeanpierrek@nyassembly.gov Dear NY…

Times Union OpEd: Legislature must reclaim the power it ceded to Cuomo

Published in Times Union January 6, 2021 On Wednesday, 40 state lawmakers will begin their first term with the traditional oath to support the United States and New York state constitutions. These freshmen lawmakers will have sworn their oath, however, at a moment when their power has been surrendered to the governor by their predecessors….

Times Union OpEd: Denying a child an education to promote a plan is troubling

Published in Times Union December 19, 2019 On the heels of the recently repealed religious exemption from immunizations, another public health bill has found its way into the New York state Legislature. And, yet again, this legislation would create another requirement that puts at risk the education of students who attend public school. In June…