If you agree that New York needs to create schools not jails, sign on to endorse my Educate NY plan today.

Let me tell you about the details of what I’m proposing:

1. Start at birth: We will serve an additional 50,000 infants and their mothers with home visiting programs. We will provide year-round child care for 100,000 additional children.  And we will provide high quality pre-K to every four year old in a high needs school district or from a low income family anywhere in the state.
   
   

2. Equal opportunity: We will fully fund every school, in every zip code. In my first year in office I will immediately restart payment on the money the state owes our schools, and over the course of three years we will scale up to the full $4.2 billion we owe so we can bring back our school counselors, our art and music programs, our paraprofessionals, and our smaller class sizes.
   
   

3. Free college: A free college education should be a basic right for every New Yorker. Governor Cuomo requires low-income students to use their federal Pell grants to pay for tuition before they can receive any benefits from Excelsior, and then there’s no money left over to pay for other prohibitive college expenses like books and room and board. My “College for All” program will pay full tuition for students eligible for state TAP grants (in other words students whose families earn up to $80,000) and then allow students to use their Pell grants to cover those additional expenses like room and board.