(From The Buffalo News, June 11, 2010)
By JOE WILLIAMS
The June 8 editorial, “State lawmakers get more serious in competition for school funding,” was right to applaud the collective efforts of the State Legislature, which finally took serious action on New York State’s Race to the Top application when it agreed to lift the arbitrary state cap on public charter schools.
However, Buffalo’s own Assemblyman Sam Hoyt deserves special recognition for his efforts. He was the first elected official in New York to point out that we desperately needed to come together as a state in order to be competitive in round two of Race to the Top. Indeed, Hoyt’s leadership played a big part in increasing New York chance at hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for our public schools.
The people of Buffalo should be proud of the hard work and foresight of their assemblyman.