NYS School Boards Association

(Airs 10/04/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Republican state legislators call for the repeal of the state’s Green Light Law, the state's teachers call for a return to politics where democracy, compromise and healthy debate are valued once again, and giant pumpkins arrived in Saratoga Springs for the annual, national pumpkin contest.

Most school district budgets were approved by New York voters Tuesday.

Capital Region residents will join fellow New Yorkers heading to the polls Tuesday to vote on proposed school budgets and school board members.

In April, the New York state Board of Regents launched an initiative to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in schools. WAMC's Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports it is now being considered and adopted in many school districts.

There are three new members of New York’s Education Policy Panel, the State Board of Regents, but will it lead to any changes in the debate over…

In the final days of the New York legislative session, which ended last week in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached an agreement…