If you want to know, then read this account by Michael Barbaro in The Times about how Andrew Cuomo helped get gay-rights groups to buy into a unified strategy, brought wealthy GOP donors into the mix, and switched key votes in the state Senate. It is a classic story of how it takes an inside […]
June 26, 2011
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National report finds achievement gap persists for Hispanic students
Although reading and math test scores have improved for Hispanic students and their white, non-Hispanic peers over the last two decades, the achievement gap between them remains substantially unchanged, a new national report says. The study, based on National Assessment of Educational Progress test results from 1990 to 2009, looked at scores of 4th and […]
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Last two unions reject a deal already dead
A final, negative footnote to the failed effort to ratify the state employees’ concession deal: two more unions rejected the tentative agreement in voting tallied Sunday, leaving a final vote of 11 unions in favor and four opposed. A labor source said the 1,150-member Connecticut State Police Union and IBPO/SEIU, a union representing 750 judicial […]