N-SSBA in the News
2023-2024 School Year
News 12: State budget tentative agreement allows school boards to move forward, April 16, 2024
Newsday: Regents exam results: See how students in your school district fared, March 2, 2024
Newsday: Student enrollment on Long Island falls 7% in decade, Feb. 12, 2024
Newsday: Some LI school districts could lose state aid under Hochul's proposed budget, Jan. 17, 2024
Newsday: Hochul's budget includes cutting aid for some NYS school districts, Jan. 16, 2024
Newsday: School property taxes capped at 2% for 2024-25, comptroller says, Jan. 12, 2024
Newsday: Long Island education: The top issues for schools in the year ahead, Jan. 7, 2024
Newsday: The tech boom in Long Island schools was fueled by COVID-19, Nov. 3, 2023
Newsday: Long Island Manufacturing Day to introduce students to employers in October, Oct. 6, 2023
2022-2023 School Year
Newsday: Students' cellphone use has some school districts considering restrictions, June 10, 2023
Newsday: School elections show power of teacher unions, observers say, May 18, 2023
Newsday survey: School spending would go up 6%, taxes an average 2%, May 15, 2023
News 12: Long Islanders prep for Super Tuesday, May 15, 2023
Newsday: School board races: Toned-down rhetoric ahead of Tuesday's elections, May 12, 2023
Newsday: Long Island school taxes to rise an average of 2.2%, March 21, 2023
Newsday: Coming to Long Island schools: record-breaking $775M increase in state aid, Feb. 4, 2023
Newsday: The state should support free school meals for all LI students, Jan. 4, 2023
In June, federal funding that had provided free meals for all students during the COVID-19 pandemic expired. This loss hit New York hard, but Long Island has borne the brunt of the impact, with nearly 250,000 students losing access to meals they need to succeed.
Governor Hochul can fix this by funding free school meals for all New York students in this year’s State budget. This would benefit all New Yorkers, but the impact would be especially significant on Long Island, where roughly 90 percent of schools would benefit.
Learn more about the quiet crisis of child hunger in our schools, and how New York can take the lead on fixing it, in this insightful Newsday op-ed by Rebecca Sanin, Chief Executive Officer of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island and Bob Vecchio, Executive Director of the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association.
#Meals4AllNY