The New York State Educational Conference Board (ECB) is a broad coalition of the state's major education organizations, uniting parents, teachers, school administrators and school board members to work together to enhance and improve the quality of education in New York State.

Position Paper

• Property Tax Cap. The governor has appointed a Moreland Act commission to develop a property tax cap for New York's school districts. The New York State Educational Conference Board strongly opposes school property tax caps. READ THE COMPLETE POSITION PAPER.

State of the State

Member organizations respond to Gov. Eliot Spitzer's 2008 State of the State address

• New York State Council of School Superintendents (Word document)
• New York State School Boards Association
• New York State United Teachers
• School Administrators Association of New York State

ECB Third Annual Policy Conference. Dec. 12, 2007.

Policy Brief

• Delivering on the Promise: For Everyone Committed to Improving Public Education. "Needless to say, there is frequently less than unanimous agreement concerning educational issues," says ECB chair Ed McCormick. "This publication is intended to further discussion concerning improvement in education." READ MORE...

Conference Presentations

• New York State Education Initiatives: Highlights (PDF)
  Manuel J. Rivera, Deputy Secretary for Education
• P-16 for Results (PDF)
• Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Senior Deputy Commissioner of Education
• Title I Funding and New York State (PDF)
  Ed Muir, American Federation of Teachers

Overview and Agenda

• Conference Brochure

Updates

• Position Paper: Property Tax Cap
• School financing, teacher quality in spotlight at ECB conference
• ECB 2nd Annual Policy Conference: "Public Education in the New World Economy." Thursday, January 18, 2007. Crowne Plaza. Albany.
• ECB letter to legislators regarding charter school cap [PDF]
• Report: ECB's First Annual Policy Conference
• ECB recommends education funding increase
• Position Paper: Charter Schools
• Position Paper: No Child Left Behind
• ECB principles for school finance reform
• Articles of agreement amended Nov. 2004

Features

Report: ECB first annual policy conference Get the full report on Investment and Accountability for Student Success, ECB's first annual policy conference. Thanks to all who participated.

March for Public Education Together with the Public Higher Education Conference Board, ECB organized tens of thousands of New York education activists to descend on Albany in the spring of 2003 to let elected officials know that public education funding is a top priority every year. [more]

Update: September 20, 2007