Hochul’s massive 2026 budget — which sees a state spending increase of $19 billion, or 8.3% — includes one outrageous cut: on Medicaid payments for therapy for autistic children.
As a New York City Housing Authority kid who entered a public-school
gifted-and-talented class in the fifth and sixth grades, I’m elated that Mayor
Adams is expanding access to G&T classrooms .…
Mediocrity has been the hallmark of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nearly eight-year
tenure at City Hall and he is leaving that mark on the city’s public school
system by elimination the gifted program.…