“We fought the hedge fund billionaires hard — it looks like we beat them on the private-school tax credit, we fought them to a draw on privatized charter schools, and we definitely defended democracy over oligarchy for New York.

    Strong Economy for All members including Citizen Action of New York, the Alliance for Quality Education, New York Communities for Change and our ‘Hedge Clippers’ project partners thank Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and his Democratic Majority Conference for standing up against the billionaires on taxes and schools.

   We look forward to a continued conversation on how Albany can work for regular New Yorkers on schools, jobs and democracy in the weeks and months to come.”