The NYS Legislative Session and Education: What Can We Expect in Albany?
Gideon John Tucker (February 10, 1826 – July 1899) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician. In 1866, as Surrogate of New York County, he wrote in a decision of a will case: “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.”
On January 8th Governor Cuomo laid out his priorities for the 2020 session in his State of the State speech to a joint meeting of both house of the legislature and a few thousand invited guests.
For Cuomo’s first eight years he faced a Democratic Assembly and a Republican Senate with the Governor as the referee. Cuomo cracked the whip; the progressive arm of the Democratic Party was constantly thwarted as Cuomo successfully increased his authority.
In this year’s speech, well over an hour, the governor had a long list of proposals,
Cuomo’s most high-profile proposals – laid out in his annual address Wednesday in Albany – include legalizing recreational marijuana and calling for state legislators to reveal their tax returns. He is also proposing guaranteed paid sick leave for nearly all workers statewide and an expansion of universal pre-kindergarten, as well as a $3 billion environmental bond act to combat CONTINUE READING: The NYS Legislative Session and Education: What Can We Expect in Albany? | Ed In The Apple
