CARLUCCI PRESS RELEASE ALBANY, NY – Monday, Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester), Chair of the Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, announced that the state Senate has passed many of his original legislative proposals that will provide significant investments into new and existing programs that will benefit our most vulnerable populations. This was accomplished while […]
CUOMO BUDGET PRESS RELEASE An agreement has been reached on the 2014-15 State Budget and all budget bills have been printed. The Budget holds spending growth below two percent for the fourth consecutive year, continuing a record of fiscal discipline that has reversed decades of state budgets where spending grew at a higher rate than […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYMAN SKOUFIS Assemblyman Skoufis (D-Woodbury) said, “This year’s budget tackles property taxes for Hudson Valley families while making our region more affordable and business-friendly. At the same time, we provide our region’s schools with much-needed funding and address student privacy concerns.” Property tax relief in the form of a direct check will […]
Press Release from The Center for Education Reform WASHINGTON, DC – The New York Legislature, together with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, crafted a budget passing late Monday night that financially favors a select few charter schools in New York City rather than giving charter schools – and the students they serve – statewide equitable treatment. “Claims that […]
PRESS RELEASE Meghan Casey, a resident of Blauvelt, New York and a member of the class of 2015 at Providence College, recently spent a week working in the Mexico, as part of the College’s Feinstein Academic Institute’s Alternative Spring Break 2014 program. Casey was among 21 PC students who volunteered to spend their spring break […]
NYSAC PRESS RELEASE County leaders applaud the State Senate for passing legislation designed to reduce the number of deaths cause by heroin overdose. The bill, (S6477B), sponsored by Senator Kemp Hannon, allows authorized health care professionals to issue non-patient specific orders for Naloxone, an antidote that works to prevent accidental overdose death from heroin and […]