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Immigration Agents Are Picking Off These Tomato Plant Workers
7+ hour, 48+ min ago (1762+ words) Immigration agents charged with boosting arrests are targeting a Sungrow greenhouse and packing facility 20 miles outside of Rochester, prompting workers to flee. “They were like alligators. They swooped in and devoured them,” said one of the plant workers. Area residents…...
NY School District Hits Pause on Robot Teacher Amid Scrutiny
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (497+ words) The district announced the pause hours after the State Education Department sent it a letter expressing concerns about the plan, which New York Focus first reported on last week. A Western New York school district has halted its plans to…...
The Fight for Control Over NY’s Charter Schools Is Escalating
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (1319+ words) A governor-appointed board has approved dozens of charter schools over objections from state education officials. Proponents say that’s a good thing. This September, a new elementary school is set to open in the South Bronx that will operate year-round, seven…...
Eli Northrup Has a Plan for Criminal Justice Reform in Albany
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1343+ words) Northrup, a former public defender and now Democratic nominee for state Assembly, says it’s time to move toward more humane and effective policies. New York state has oscillated on criminal justice reform in recent years. Under former Governor Andrew Cuomo,…...
Union and Home Care Company Worked Closely Together, Records Show
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1591+ words) Health care union 1199SEIU helped Public Partnerships LLC take over the state’s home care program, even as it warned some workers could see wage cuts. Since the company Public Partnerships LLC took over running New York’s $11 billion state-funded home care program…...
Albany Has Let Disability and Mental Health Oversight Boards Wither…
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1622+ words) Boards of Visitors are supposed to oversee state-run disability and psychiatric programs. Almost none of them have enough members. The board overseeing state-run programs for people with developmental disabilities in New York’s bucolic Hudson Valley is tasked with visiting and…...
What Is ICE Building at New York’s Largest Detention Center?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1242+ words) The agency is adding 100 beds to the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is adding 100 beds to New York’s largest and only ICE-run immigration detention center, but it has refused to describe what form the expansion will take,…...
Hochul Extends NY HELPS Program, But Mamdani Won't Join
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (1037+ words) New York City has no plans to opt into NY HELPS, which has been extended to 2028 after filling 60,000 government jobs. New York is extending a program that has filled tens of thousands of government jobs across the state — but New…...
Extreme Heat Is Rising. New York’s Cooling Aid Isn’t.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1035+ words) New York’s free air conditioner program ran out of funding before summer, even as extreme heat becomes a deadlier threat. The cooling safety net that provides free air conditioners to New Yorkers across the state ran out of funding during…...
Will New York Home Care Workers Unionize? Many Are Wary.
4+ week, 7+ hour ago (1875+ words) New York’s biggest health care union wants 200,000 home health aides to join up. On the 16th floor of a Midtown office building, dozens of union members are running the largest organizing drive in modern US history. Six days a week, from…...