Lawmakers bristle at negative connotations associated with pork spending.
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Lawmakers bristle at negative connotations associated with pork spending.
It appears that Governor Cuomo got New York Democrats to come together and the NYS Senate IDC to agree to dissolve at NYC meeting.
The state budget director and comptroller must still approve the payments. But there’s no competitive bidding, which means Albany power brokers can send funds to favored groups.
“…People with disabilities have waited long enough to have a railroad that takes into consideration their needs and provides proper service to them,” said NYS Senator John Brooks.
NYS may be prepared to join a handful of states that have been pushing plans to circumvent the Feds’ cap on state and local tax deductions, often by trying to create a charitable fund.
He’s been involved in the campaign to “Spread the Word to End the Word,” and if there’s any positive element to this ugliness, it’s that no one had used it on him in a long time.
Please help us end the staffing crisis in our special education programs. Call your NYS legislator TODAY and ask that they support adding $14.7 Million to the State Budget to help our schools recruit and retain teachers.
Adapt Community Network is conducting an event for families called Family Connect Summit on Thursday, April 26 at the New York Academy of Medicine, 5th Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. Session topics include, Family Support Services and how to access them; a discussion about Conflict-Free Case Management and New York’s transition to Managed Care; Personal Outcome Measures (POM); understanding New York State’s Residential Services, and more. Click the link below for more on the summit, including how to register.
For more information call 718-436-7979, extension 704
“The delay is to ensure that we have a regulation that really does meet the needs of students that are disabled in any way” – Betsy DeVos
While guardianship is supposed to safeguard individuals, the report found that courts are frequently incapable of adequately monitoring these situations.