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 Recent agreement to fund NYC’s transit authority begs the question of when aging upstate infrastructure will be shown the love. |
Bombus Americanus, the vanishing American Bumblebee. Photo by Jay Burney/GreenWatch
New York state’s response to the decline of honeybees and native pollinators may being doing more harm than good. |
 New York ranks close to dead last in voter turnout in a nation with already low voter turnout numbers. |
Merryl Tisch and Phil Weinberg prepare for a panel on state testing at the New York State School Boards Association conference. Photo by Monica Disare, Chalkbeat NY.
The state’s top education officials struck a measured tone when discussing the Common Core standards on Monday. |
 An interactive map viewing the state’s medical marijuana dispensaries by location. |
 The executive director of the Network for Public Education came to town last week to argue against high-stakes testing. |
 Medical marijuana advocates across the state are growing anxious over the regulation’s apparent shortfalls. |
Photos by Nancy J. Parisi
How the odds are stacked against refugee students in New York’s schools. |