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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has included more than $13 million in her executive budget to support a statewide ban on cellphones in schools.

(Airs 10/04/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Republican state legislators call for the repeal of the state’s Green Light Law, the state's teachers call for a return to politics where democracy, compromise and healthy debate are valued once again, and giant pumpkins arrived in Saratoga Springs for the annual, national pumpkin contest.

New York state's teachers are calling for a return to politics where democracy, compromise and healthy debate are valued once again.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government hosted the last of five public hearings on New York’s Foundation Aid formula for funding education this week.

Melinda Person is the new leader of New York’s largest teachers’ union

The incoming SUNY Chancellor is no stranger to educational interests in New York.

After two years of pandemic disruptions, returning to normal isn’t good enough for New York state students. Our state is in a once-in-a-generation position to properly fund education. And due to the pandemic, students needs have never been more dire. Now is the time for lawmakers to deliver the funding needed to make public schools the center of every community statewide. That’s the message I delivered to lawmakers in late January while testifying at a joint legislative budget hearing on k-12 education.

Labor Day signals the start of the new school year. And with the continued threat of COVID-19, many parents are understandably concerned about the safety of sending their children back to in-person classrooms.

The state’s largest teachers union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Division of Budget over more than $5…

As schools in New York state grapple with reopening plans during the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also facing a temporary 20% cut in state funding that…