Two Westchester high schools will participate in a state pilot program aimed at helping schools shift toward performance-based assessments, which evaluate what students know by having them perform tasks or create something. The state Education Department announced Hendrick Hudson High School and Port Chester High School as two of 23 New York schools that will […]
AIRMONT ‒ A New York state regulatory agency is assessing the village’s code enforcement program amid claims by some residents that the government has been lax in enforcing state fire and building codes. The Ramapo village has had a history of zoning and enforcement issues since it was formed in 1992. That history includes divisiveness […]
New York is finally taking steps to curb a lingering pitfall of its transition to cashless tolling: drivers racked with big debts for unpaid toll bills they may never have seen. State lawmakers have pitched policy changes for six years to help those toll payers, only for two governors — Andrew Cuomo and then Kathy […]
In addition to funding clean energy, gun violence prevention and housing, New York’s state budget addresses a top concern in education: students’ low reading scores. Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed for schools to be required to use a phonics-based approach to teach reading, and the state budget directs the state Education Department to produce best practices […]
NEW CITY ‒ Rockland County has joined other governments that are challenging the constitutionality of a state law moving local elections to even-numbered years. The government’s legal action contends the law violates the county’s charter and limits the next term of the county executive and legislators to three years, as opposed to four-year terms. The […]
A long-running legal fight over New York requiring employers to include abortion coverage in their workers’ health insurance plans goes before the state’s highest court on Tuesday. Attorneys are set to argue before the Court of Appeals over a 2017 state regulation that requires plans to cover “medically necessary abortions,” except when employers are granted […]
From the conflicts raging abroad, to a host of troubling issues here including a rise in hate in our own backyards, so much is at stake as New Yorkers prepare to cast their votes later this year. The choices we make at the ballot box will shape our state, our country, and our world for […]
The New York state Legislature blew through Thursday’s already extended deadline to reach a budget deal and agreed to continue talks through Monday in time for the 2024 solar eclipse. This is the second extender the legislature has passed as Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly leadership try to resolve […]
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse this week joined the growing list of deadly bridge collapses nationally, while renewing focus on efforts to prevent the tragedies. In New York, about 3,000 bridges need repair or corrective action, which reflects 16% of all bridges in the state, inspection data show. That includes 245 bridges in Westchester […]
Cell service in New York may be affected on the day of the eclipse by the influx of traffic to the state. Rochester is in the path of totality — where the moon completely darkens the sun — making it one of the best places to view the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. According to local […]
Are you in need of heating assistance for the last month or so of New York’s cold temperatures and snowy weather? Gov. Kathy Hochul announced last week that additional home heating assistance is available for low- and middle-income New York residents struggling to pay their heating bills or who could run out of heating fuel […]
In most of New York State, owning a car is a necessity, not a luxury. Outside of New York City, it can be next to impossible to keep a job, get to college classes or access healthcare without a car. Yet, the cost of car ownership in America has soared to unprecedented levels, with recent […]