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Dear Fellow New Yorker, In order to ensure that our state continues on the right track to improve our schools, last April the Governor established the New NY Education Reform Commission, a group of nationally recognized education, community, and business leaders to make recommendations for future reforms in education. Over the last seven months, the Commission held public hearings in each of the 10 regions of New York, received thousands of pages of testimony, and heard from more than 300 students, parents, educators and stakeholders.  Today, the Governor received a preliminary report from the commission. The Preliminary Education Action Plan, presented to the Governor and his cabinet by Commission Chair Richard Parsons, addresses every phase of a student’s education from the earliest days of pre-kindergarten through college and career. The Commission makes eight key recommendations: Provide high quality full-day pre-kindergarten for our most at-risk students; Create statewide models for “Community Schools” that use schools as a community hub to improve access to public, non-profit, and private services/resources, like health and social services, for students and their families; Transform and extend the school day and year to expand quality learning time for students, especially in underserved communities; Improve the teacher and principal pipeline to recruit and retain the most effective educators; Build better bridges from high school to college and careers with early college high schools and career technical education; Utilize all available classroom technologies to empower educators to meet the needs of a diverse student population and engage students as active participants in their own learning; Pursue efficiencies such as district consolidation, high school regionalization and shared services to increase student access to educational opportunities; and Increase transparency and accountability of district leadership by creating a performance management system. Click here to view the presentation and here to view the plan. The recommendations contained in the Commission’s Preliminary Education Action Plan represent immediate opportunities to begin developing a world-class education system in the Empire State. While this is a solid start, the Commission recognizes that there is more work to be done. A Final Action Plan will be completed in Fall 2013, as the Commission continues to engage experts and the New York community to develop further recommendations to address the complex issues that impact and drive student success. Click here to learn more about the New NY Education Reform Commission and submit ideas. Together, we are ensuring that our students get the education they deserve. Sincerely, The Office of the Governor

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won't some young adult please teach Andrew Cuomo that NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 does not allow him to close Nassau OTB on   Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday.

New York State is bankrupt because it is lead by Andrew Cuomo who thinks that he can tell people when a holy day is. Export Andrew Cuomo.

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.