According to Betty Rosa, the head of the NYSED, they were forced to develop guidance because the state health department and Governor Cuomo's office did not.
Private and religious schools that don't provide instruction substantially equivalent to New York state's public schools will be threatened with loss of funding for textbooks, transportation and other services under new state Education Department rules released Tuesday.
The Superintendent of Schools who has been credited with forging the merger between Mohawk and Ilion Schools has now been named the new Deputy Commissioner of Preschool Through Grade 12 at the New York State Department of Education.