To combat racism, fund needy schools
“When I was a child in the 1960s, racism was in your face. Explicit racist insults were common and in some communities the Ku Klux Klan was known for cross burnings in the front yards of people of color. But today racism has gone underground and modern-day cross burnings are done with a calculator. We see this in how New York state manipulates school funding formulas and fails to adequately fund our schools in our neediest communities like the South Bronx, Syracuse and Utica or – in my own Long Island Assembly district – Brentwood and Central Islip.”