ALBANY â Senators and members of the Assembly on Tuesday persisted with hours of debate about taxing the rich, requiring nursing homes to spend 70% of revenue on patient care and other budget policies with the intent of passing the 2021-22 state spending plan six days late.
The stateâs historic $212 billion spending plan includes a provision to legalize mobile sports betting; a new program to map the stateâs availability and cost of high-speed internet services; $29.5 billion in school aid; $29 billion to grow the stateâs green infrastructure and economy; a $105 million expansion for full-day pre-Kindergarten in all public school districts; and $2.1 billion for benefits for excluded essential workers such as undocumented immigrants and people recently released from prison.
NY state budget: Deal to freeze SUNY tuition, expand TAP aid
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Exterior view of the New York State Capitol, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Albany, N.Y.Hans Pennink | AP Photo
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Albany, N.Y. New York state’s looming budget deal includes a $56 million boost in state funds for public colleges and a three-year tuition freeze at SUNY and CUNY schools, several lawmakers and stakeholders confirmed Tuesday.
The tentative spending plan also includes increased investment in the state’s Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), which benefits both public and private college students.
MoMA appoints Leah Dickerman as Director of Research Programs
Ms. Dickerman is well-known to MoMA audiences as a respected writer, editor, scholar, and organizer of many acclaimed exhibitions.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Leah Dickerman as the first Director of Research Programs. In this new position, Ms. Dickerman will create an integrated strategy to reimagine MoMAs Studies in Modern Art publication series as a platform for new thinking and research about modern and contemporary art generated by the Museums programs, curators, fellows and other researchers engaged with the collection. She will continue to oversee the Mellon-Marron Research Consortium (MRC) partnership between MoMA and five regional graduate art history programsColumbia University; The Graduate Center, City University of New York; the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Princeton University; and Yale Universitysupported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]
Grantees will bring together thousands of young people from the United States and the Middle East and North Africa for an exciting opportunity to engage with global peers through virtual exchange.
New York
, April 7, 2021
–– Today, the Stevens Initiative announced its support of Game Exchange, implemented by Games for Change. Games for Change is one of 19 grantees to be named a 2021 Stevens Initiative grantee.
“People-to-people exchanges are critical to advancing global peace and understanding,” said Matthew Lussenhop, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. “Through early adoption of virtual exchanges, the Stevens Initiative has elevated technology to foster collaboration between students in the United States and counterparts in the Middle East and North Africa.”
April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
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Why is the Republican Party so determined to constrain the franchise?
One answer is provided by the changing demographics of the children in the nation’s public schools, a leading indicator of shifts in the racial and ethnic makeup of the country.
The percentage of public school students who were white was 64.8 percent in 1995, and this percentage dropped below 50 percent in 2014 (to 49.5 percent). N.C.E.S. projects that in 2029, White students will make up 43.8 percent of public school enrollment.
The changing racial and ethnic makeup of the schools, something visible to parents and to anyone who walks by at recess, is a leading indicator of the day (in roughly 2045) when non-Hispanic whites of all ages will drop under 50 percent of the U.S. population, soon to be followed by the day when whites become a minority of the electorate (although that will depend on how voters self-identify among other things,