Despite the intimate
ties between Cuomo and nearly every
individual accused today, Bharara refused
to comment on whether the
governor was complicit or complacent in any of these alleged illegal dealings — or even on whether his investigators had interviewed Cuomo at any point during the probe.
In his State of the State address on Jan. 21,
Governor Andrew Cuomo
tied $ 1.1 billion in additional state education aid
to the passage of his «reform» proposals in the state budget:
individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.