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There's a new Siena poll out today showing Cuomo falling to his lowest job approval number in a Siena poll (41%-59%) The poll also sh...

In the NY Times profile of Glenwood real estate exectuive Charles Dorego, "CW-1" in the Dean Skelos criminal case and a "repr...

Ken Lovett in the Daily News: State Assembly Democrats are livid at Gov. Cuomo for what one says is an "obnoxious" public cam...

Ken Lovett reports in today's Daily News that Albany pols are afraid to engage in the usual end-of-the-legislative-session horsetrading...

A Long Island Republican, unnamed, in Chris Smith's latest New York Magazine piece , on how the legislative session has gone so far: ...

The lone legislator to attend Governor Cuomo's transparency summit (via phone) explains how Cuomo tried to keep him away from it: ...

David Sirota and Matthew Cunningham reported in the International Business Times that the Cuomo administration has cut cancer screening for...

So says State of Politics: Incoming Senate Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino has backed a number of education-related bills o...

Here is a commentary by Kathy Holhul at Syracuse.com in which she asserts overcrowding and poor building conditions in public schools are g...

From Capitol Confidential: The Assembly passed Wednesday an omnibus education reform package that addresses both the updated teacher eva...

This is a great sentence: "I hope over the next year to convince parents to help us help them understand why we test," Merryl Ti...

From Political Wire: Gov. Chris Christie (R) “gave an expletive-laced speech at an annual New Jersey media roast Wednesday, taking aim at...

So much for the doyenne of testing listening to parents and teachers: Making roughly 40 percent of a teacher’s annual evaluation based on...

Jimmy Vielkind at Capital NY: The summit is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Cuomo's New York City office. It's unclear whether the press ...

From the State of Politics morning update: At 8 a.m., Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch discusses charter schools, mayoral contro...

A commenter at Perdido Street School blog:   The opt out numbers will play an important role when the new APPR eventually gets challe...

The NY Times has a piece out with the theme "The Opt Out Movement Comes Of Age": In 440 of the state’s 721 districts, The Times...

A Capital NY piece by Bakeman and Shapiro reports the Assembly hopes they have: ALBANY—State Assembly Democrats have effectively backed d...

A commenter at Capital NY on the Regents/SED reform meeting yesterday: Dr. Tisch was the person who supported the Governor on the new APP...

From State of Politics: Queens Democratic Sen. Michael Gianaris in an interview on Monday compared Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s education reform ...