Wednesday, February 15, 2006
CFE - Tuition Tax Credit Log Roll?
Thousands of supporters of the proposed tuition tax credit plan rallied in Albany yesterday, in what has emerged as unusually popular issue - especially downstate Democrats who have been watching Catholic schools in their districts shutter their doors in recent years.
All signs (actually, the only signs that matter: from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and UFT president Randi Weingarten) indicate there may be votes for the $500 tuition tax credits if there is some movement from Republicans on resolving the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.
Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio told the NY Sun that the president of the UFT, Randi Weingarten, told him during a one-hour meeting on Monday that she "has an evolving position" on tuition tax credits. (But not so fast, NYSUT is reportedly threatening behind-the-scenes to boycott fundraisers for Dems who don't follow their marching orders.)
NY1 story is here. NY Post story is here. Times-Union story here.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: If you took the $5.6 billion per year in new spending for NYC proposed in the CFE case and divided it among the 1.1 million kids who aren't getting a constitutionally-guaranteed "sound basic education" in the city's schools, it would come to more than $5,000 per child. Power to the people.
All signs (actually, the only signs that matter: from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and UFT president Randi Weingarten) indicate there may be votes for the $500 tuition tax credits if there is some movement from Republicans on resolving the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.
Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio told the NY Sun that the president of the UFT, Randi Weingarten, told him during a one-hour meeting on Monday that she "has an evolving position" on tuition tax credits. (But not so fast, NYSUT is reportedly threatening behind-the-scenes to boycott fundraisers for Dems who don't follow their marching orders.)
NY1 story is here. NY Post story is here. Times-Union story here.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: If you took the $5.6 billion per year in new spending for NYC proposed in the CFE case and divided it among the 1.1 million kids who aren't getting a constitutionally-guaranteed "sound basic education" in the city's schools, it would come to more than $5,000 per child. Power to the people.
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