The administration will soon send legislators a plan to meet a mandate capping class sizes, said NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels.
The governor, Senate, and Assembly all have different ideas for how to implement this year’s increases for human services contracts.
Unions want state leaders to sweeten their retirement packages. What would it cost, and what would it achieve?
Under the governor’s proposal, the most concrete deadline for climate action would be pushed out to the end of her potential second term.
The state’s universal pre-K funding model is notoriously complex. How does it actually work, and can the governor’s plan fix it?
Sold as a pandemic-era emergency program, the state’s theater tax credit has quietly sent hundreds of millions to short-run flops and blockbuster hits.
Attorney General Letitia James alleges Attyx “built its business by defrauding consumers.”
The bill follows reporting from New York Focus and other news outlets on prison staff mistaking menstrual and contraceptive products for hidden contraband.
Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who had immigration hearings to Uganda.
Prison officials have refused to release crucial records on how the agency handles allegations of sexual abuse.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
Senate and Assembly budget proposals would leave New Yorkers at risk of losing their benefits from federal cuts.
The governor and legislature are negotiating over immigration legislation outside of the budget process.
The Senate and Assembly budget proposals included most of the governor’s ambitious child care plans — but lawmakers have other ideas for Foundation Aid.
Critics say the $10 annual fees state drivers pay to fight car insurance theft and fraud aren’t being used as intended.
Amid a crisis in the state’s prison system, the governor’s and legislature’s budget proposals differ, but largely lack major reforms.
The Senate and Assembly are resisting Hochul’s push to relax New York’s emissions targets and are instead pressing for renewed clean energy funding.
It remains to be seen whether the Assembly will get on board.
The legislature left the climate law untouched for now, but Governor Kathy Hochul could still push for changes in coming weeks.
The Senate and Assembly’s budget proposals include many of the mayor’s desired revenue-raisers and give the city a larger cut of state funds.