andrew cuomo & do not eat at the wandering dago food truck or bet hirses. State Education Department moves to boost oversight of private schools& keep ny const art 1 sec 3 out, death to ny pml sec 109
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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.
The state Education Department proposed revised rules Friday to boost its oversight of private and religious schools.
The regulations would require the nonpublic schools to provide “substantially equivalent instruction” to what’s offered at public schools.
The scrutiny comes amid complaints from education activists that some Jewish schools, or yeshivas, are shirking secular instruction.
A state Supreme Court judge in Albany last month blocked the Education Department’s standards for nonpublic schools because officials failed to properly publish the rule changes and allow for public comment. The new proposal fixes the procedural flaws.
A public comment period will run from July 3 to Sept. 2, after which the final regulations will come before the Board of Regents for approval in the fall of 2019.
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