Wednesday’s Briefing: School’s Never Out

by Contributor | July 23, 2008 12:25 pm

At least, not if you’re a member of state government.  Much talk about education in the last day.

Gov. Paterson’s top proposal — to cap school property tax increases — is stuck in Legislative Hell.  He wants it.  The Republican who runs the State Senate, Dean Skelos, is all for it and plans to call members back into session to pass it.  But Paterson’s nominal ally, Democratic Assembly boss Sheldon Silver, will only back it if it protects from cuts the gains of recent years in things like the pre-K program.

• Today, there’s news that Silver is more alone in his seeming opposition that even he thought.  The state School Boards Association says three-quarters of its members support the cap[1].
• On higher education, there’s a plan to boost the status of SUNY schools[2].
• The Gov continues to stump for a low-cost college loan idea[3].
• And it’s easier now to fire teachers convicted of sex crimes[4].

Elsewhere:

• Paterson has to decide today on a disputed plan to help natural gas drillers[5].
• He signed a video game labeling law[6].
• He wants input on plans to let state employees have time off for cancer screenings[7].
• Attorney General Cuomo goes fishin’ again, finds five more lawyers in his pension fraud net[8].
• Cuomo warns another internet provider about access to kiddie porn[9].
• Eliot Spitzer: the investigation that keeps on investigatin’.[10]
• The NY Daily News ponders an endangered species[11].

And Finally:

• The Jellyfish That Ate New York[12]. They’re everywhere! Run!

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