Monthly Archives: April, 2014
WCNY board meeting set for April 29
Published - April 21, 2014
In accordance with open meetings law, WCNY provides reasonable notice to the public of its board meetings. The next WCNY Board Meeting will take place at 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the WCNY Broadcast and Education Center located at 415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, N.Y. Interested parties wishing to attend should contact the Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York before 4 p.m. Monday, April 28 by calling (315) 453-2424.
Newly minted NYSUT President Karen Magee on WCNY’s ‘The Capitol Pressroom’
Published - April 17, 2014
April 17, 2014 — After her election on April 6, newly minted NYSUT President Karen Magee received a congratulatory phone call from Governor Cuomo and a visit from State Education Commissioner John King. While critical of both men’s policies, Magee was particularly hard on Commissioner King. “I very clearly presented to the Commissioner that my members have taken a ‘vote of no confidence,'” Magee said on WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom. “They have no confidence in him and they wish he would resign.” Magee sat down with Capitol Pressroom host Susan Arbetter to discuss her priorities for the teachers’ union. “My mandate is to
School district aid increases in WCNY’s 19 Counties
Published - April 8, 2014
Most Central New York school districts received more school aid in the 2014-15 New York State Budget than in 2013-14. Click here to see the aid your local district received.
Education Commissioner John King and UUP at odds over new teacher certification
Published - April 7, 2014
April 7, 2014 — United University Professions (UUP) claims the roll out of the edTPA, a new certification process for student teachers, was as flawed as the Common Core implementation. However, State Education Commissioner John King asserts the edTPA is a valuable tool that tests real world skills. On April 3, Jamie Dangler, UUP’s Vice President for Academics, told WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom, “New York State has rushed its implementation and imposed this in a way that has not allowed our faculty and our programs to be able to prepare students. So there is an immediate crisis in that students who will
Budget includes funding for affordable childcare
Published - April 4, 2014
On WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom, Senator David Carlucci, discussed wins the Independent Democratic Conference secured in the budget, including money for childcare. “When we talk about living in New York, it’s about making it affordable,” Carlucci told Capitol Pressroom host Susan Arbetter. “I know as the parent of an eight-month-old son, that the cost of childcare is just so expensive. We fought in this budget. We were able to get an initial $33 million for the Child Subsidy Block Grant. That’s an important piece because that is going to allow for so many more families to put their children in
Environmental groups say the budget falls short
Published - April 3, 2014
April 3, 2014 — Environmentalists were hoping to see more money for the state’s Environmental Protection Fund and other critical programs like reformed brownfield cleanup in the state budget. A panel joined Susan Arbetter on WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom to discuss their reaction to the budget. “For us,” Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, said, “this budget really is a missed opportunity to take that forward step that would further enhance our environment; protect our public health; and ensure that the population has an environment that they want to recreate in, breathe cleaner air, cleaner water,
Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino reacts to 2014-2015 state budget
Published - April 1, 2014
Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino, R-Westchester, was unimpressed by the on-time passage of the 2014-2015 state budget. “Whoop-ti-do! You’re doing your job, you are supposed to do that,” Astorino told Capitol Pressroom host Susan Arbetter. “What’s in the budget is more important and this is a typical, election year gimmick budget with a property tax gimmick. I’m really concerned that politicians won but the hard working middle class–business owners, etc–they continue to lose. Until we have not tax shifting or tax increases but tax cutting in a real way, then we are going to continue to have a decline in this state.” Astorino
‘The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama’ continues tonight at 8 p.m. on WCNY
Published - April 1, 2014
The national PBS five-part series The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama features prize-winning author of 15 books and Emmy-award winner Simon Schama. Schama travels Russia and the Ukraine to Egypt, Israel and Spain, exploring the imprint that Jewish culture has made on the world and the drama of suffering, resilience and rebirth that has gone with it. The series is also a personal journey for Schama who has been immersed in Jewish history since his postwar childhood. “If you were to remove from our collective history the contribution Jews have made to human culture, our world would be almost unrecognizable,”
