It appears that Governor Cuomo got New York Democrats to come together and the NYS Senate IDC to agree to dissolve at NYC meeting.
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Hidden Pork?
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.
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NYS Senator Says LIRR Shows lack Of Respect For Passengers With Disabilities
“…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.
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Is NY’s SALT Proposal Legal?
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.
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Here’s How, and WHY, The R Word Can Be So Painful
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.
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Please Call Your Legislators To Increase Our Teachers’ Salaries
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.
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Family Summit Scheduled for April 26 in NYC
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.
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For more information call 718-436-7979, extension 704
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Federal Government Will Delay Special Ed Rule
“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
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Feds Call For Alternatives To Guardianship
While guardianship is supposed to safeguard individuals, the report found that courts are frequently incapable of adequately monitoring these situations.
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Please Call Your NYS Assemblymember Today
As we head into the final days of state budget negotiations, we’ve initiated a push for the Legislature to include language that expresses its intent to include the additional installments of living wage funding for direct support professionals (DSPs) for the next four state fiscal years.
The Assembly and Senate one-house budget proposals included funding for the second installment of a six-year plan to bring DSPs to a living wage. The funding was also included in the Governor’s Executive Budget.
But due to the state’s fiscal constraints, neither house has been able to include the #bFair2DirectCare request for an acceleration of that program.
Nonetheless, including this “intent” language would be a big help. This language, which the Senate has advanced, pledged 3.25 percent increases to be funded every April 1 from 2019 through 2022. This is essentially the rest of the living wage program begun with the 2017-18 budget. Now we must convince the Assembly to agree to adopt that language and then advocate for it in final budget negotiations with Governor Cuomo.
This is where you can be a tremendous help. Assembly Mental Health Chair Aileen has prepared a letter asking Speaker Carl Heastie to advocate for the “intent” language. She’s circulating this letter among her colleagues in the Assembly Democratic majority and asking them to sign on.
The more Assembly Democrat signatures he sees on that letter, the more likely the Speaker will be to agree to the request.
Please contact your Assembly Democratic member and urge him or her to sign on to Assemblywoman Gunther’s #bFair2DirectCare letter to the Speaker.
- To find your local Assemblymember, go to the New York Families for Disability Rights (NYFDR) website at http://www.nyfamilyrights.org/advocate/contact-influencers/
It’s CRITICAL that these calls happen this week, as final decisions on the state budget are being formulated right now.