Under any scenario, there is going to be a bucketful of cash being dumped into education this year. There’s always something for every side. That’s the way politics is played in Albany.

Creating an education tax-credit program would allow New York to join the half-dozen other states providing families with this type of financial assistance on the cutting edge of education reform.

It’s like giving Burger King the power to kill a McDonald’s that wants to open in the same town.

The governor has to be very firm in his commitment to charter schools.