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The SUNY Charter Schools Committee on Wednesday approved a controversial plan that could allow certain charter schools to bypass state teacher certification criteria. The move, approved 4-1 by the committee, allows high-performing charter schools authorized by SUNY to create independent criteria for teacher certification, removing the requirement of a bachelor’s […]
As college students across New York were settling into their first week of classes, the Trump administration announced on September 5 that it would be repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The DACA program allows children of illegal immigrants to study in the United States and seek employment […]
New SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson spent her first day on the job getting acquainted with her surroundings. Like many of SUNY’s approximately 600,000 students, Johnson is settling into unfamiliar surroundings, between trips to Target to get the chancellor’s residence into comfortable shape and meeting with the SUNY executive advisory team, […]
The Excelsior Scholarship, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s program to provide tuition-free public college for working-class families, accepted its final application for the upcoming school year last week. According to media reports citing the Governor’s Office, the program received more than 75,000 applications — 51,000 to SUNY and 24,000 to CUNY. Five […]
The SUNY board of trustees on Monday appointed Dr. Kristina M. Johnson as the 13th chancellor of the State University of New York. Johnson — an engineer, business executive and former energy official under President Barack Obama — served as Dean of the School of Engineering at Duke University […]
More than 940,000 families will qualify for tuition-free college at SUNY and CUNY schools once fully implemented Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship program, which will provide free tuition to undergraduate students attending SUNY and CUNY schools beginning this fall, was signed into law at LaGuardia Community College in […]
Governor Cuomo’s first legislative priority for 2017 becomes a reality: More than 75 percent of New York’s families will be eligible for free tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools Back in January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was joined by Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders to unveil an auspicious plan […]
Under the recently adopted budget, tax cuts, tax credits and investments in education are all apart of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s goal to revive the middle class and give millennials an incentive to invest their future in New York. “With this budget, New York is once again leading the nation […]