Melissa Manno is a reporter at New York Focus, covering the state’s school system and education politics. She was previously an education reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, where she reported on discipline, special education, school funding and other issues impacting students in South Texas. Melissa also covered business at the Albany Times Union as a Hearst fellow and is an alumna of Penn State University.
At a Board of Regents meeting Monday, state officials proposed eliminating credit-based diploma requirements.
Advocates welcomed the additional funding but said it falls short of need and doesn’t do enough to support workers.
The Hochul administration now has a chance to relax New York’s child care staffing ratios — among the country’s strictest — after 26 years. But will it?
Two years after Gov. Hochul unveiled her signature literacy policy, advocates say the findings underscore an urgent need for sweeping literacy reform.
The East Ramapo school board has been overseen by state monitors for years after it slashed millions in public school funds to bankroll private religious education.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she sees “no reason” to remove Senator Luis Sepúlveda as judiciary chair.
That number is up from 21 last July. New York City’s waitlist alone has surged to over 17,000 — a tenfold increase in less than a year.
The administration will soon send legislators a plan to meet a mandate capping class sizes, said NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels.
The state’s universal pre-K funding model is notoriously complex. How does it actually work, and can the governor’s plan fix it?
The Senate and Assembly budget proposals included most of the governor’s ambitious child care plans — but lawmakers have other ideas for Foundation Aid.
Dozens of school districts have opted out of the state’s program. Will the governor’s proposed funding boost be enough to help school districts close the gaps?
Will this week’s budget hearing provide insight into the state’s plan to salvage its safety net?
The state’s top education officials head to the hot seat Thursday for a lengthy budget hearing. Here are some questions we’d put on the table.
Hochul has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan that she says would ultimately deliver free child care to every New York family — without tapping additional revenue sources.