Electric buses, tutors, and the wild world of education spending
Association of School Business Officials of New York Executive Director Brian Cechnicki joins the show.
Under the hood of Hochul’s education budget
Association of School Business Officials New York's Brian Cechnicki highlights two below-the-radar education proposals.
School finance officials want the state to pay its IOUs
ASBONY Executive Director Brian Chechnicki makes the case for school districts recouping money owed by the state.
The barriers to new school buildings in New York
State lawmakers passed a bill this past session restricting the construction of school buildings near highways.
Education 2024: The good, the bad, and shifting alliances
The education headlines of a decade ago are back in the news on Planet Albany, with policymakers fighting over state aid to public schools and teacher evaluations up for debate. To make sense of these big stories, as well
First steps on the road to all-electric school buses
The Hochul administration published a "roadmap" for complying with the mandated transition to zero-emission school buses.
Schools get windfall of federal and state funds in budget
April 13, 2021 - The recently adopted state budget invests billions of additional federal and state dollars into New York's public schools and makes a commitment to meet a court-ordered funding obligation in the coming years. Brian Cechnicki, executive
Record school funding increases prioritized by lawmakers in advance of budget talks
Mar. 16, 2021 - What do the legislative one-house proposals mean for education funding? We broke it down with Brian Cechnicki, Executive Director of the Association of School Business Officials – New York.
Pandemic exacerbates financial challenges for New York schools already in fiscal stress
Feb. 8, 2021 - 31 school districts have caught the attention of the state Comptroller’s Fiscal Stress Monitoring System. We discussed the state of these schools and school funding with Brian Cechnicki, Executive Director of the Association of
