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Groups ask for more direct aid to schools
New York's schools may be getting more money under the budget proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo. But members of one advocacy group say they're not satisfied with the way it's being distributed
Read More »‘FDR’ – Healthcare Cuts are Raw Deal
Syracuse Post-Standard http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/fdr_healthcare_cuts_are_a_raw.html Syracuse, NY — Syracusans got a visit from the past on Wednesday as two actors dressed as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt addressed a group of protesters outside the federal building on
Read More »Public Hearings on State Redistricting
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It's a group is search of respect. Vilified by the governor as too partisan. Criticized by protestors, outside their first public hearing as too beholden to the status quo. "Unfortunately, they're only
Read More »Syracuse neighborhood group seeks more local jobs
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Saying state and local leaders must do more to create jobs in low-income areas, Syracuse United Neighbors sponsored a protest today on the city’s South Side, one of several across the
Read More »Syracuse Councilor Tom Seals says silent majority supports his vote against tax hike
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Despite “lots” of phone calls over the past two weeks, and two dozen protesters in front of his house Friday, Syracuse Common Councilor Tom Seals held his ground Monday and voted
Read More »Meet a Syracuse teacher who’s going to lose his job: He’s 31, wanted to teach in the city district and his wife’s pregnant with twins
Post-Standard Syracuse Meet one of the hundreds of Syracuse school district employees who are learning they will not have a job with the district come next September. He is Fowler High School math teacher Christoph Weldert, 31,
Read More »Laid-off Syracuse teachers join protest against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s school budget cuts
Syracuse.com Syracuse A handful of Fowler High School staff who just received their lay-off notices joined in on a protest this morning against the governor’s proposed cuts in funding for education. Ninth grade math teacher Jake Taylor,
Read More »Rallying for local schools, as state aid cuts and layoffs loom
CNY Central SYRACUSE "Protect our Kids, Not Millionaires," was the chant during a news conference at Fowler High School Thursday morning. Representatives of Citizen Action of New York and the Alliance for Quality Education were joined
Read More »Educators rally against end to millionaire’s tax
News Channel 9 - WSYR Syracuse A group of teachers, parents and students gathered outside the State Office Building in downtown Syracuse to protest Governor Cuomo's plan to expire the so-called millionaire's tax. Under the Governor's plan,
Read More »Rally against state aid cuts for schools
YNN Albany "No more cuts. No more cuts. No more cuts. No more cuts," chanted community members at a rally Tuesday. Devastating is the only word parents, teachers and students can use to describe the governor's proposed
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