Source: State of Politics/Time Warner Cable
Date: September 1, 2016
Democratic Senate hopeful Sara Niccoli on Wednesday defended the right to “opt out” of standardized tests, writing in a letter to the top official at the state Department of Education it’s “unrealistic” to force participation until changes are made to the Common Core standards.
Source: Spotlight News
Date: August 31, 2016
Last month, at an event hosted by the teacher advocacy group Educators4Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia angered parents and teachers alike by calling parents who opt their children out of Common Core testing “unreasonable” and teachers who support opting out “unethical.” Local State Senate candidate Sara Niccoli, a young mother who has made education reform a key plank of her campaign platform, responded to Elia’s comments in a letter released on the first of September.
Source: State of Politics/Time Warner Cable
Date: August 30, 2016
Democratic state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli in a fundraising email last week pledged to support and strengthen women’s rights if elected to the chamber.
Source: Capital Tonight/Time Warner Cable
Date: May 27, 2016
Source: State of Politics/Time Warner Cable
Date: April 12, 2016
Democratic state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli in a radio interview Tuesday questioned the wisdom of funding school districts primarily through property tax revenue, saying the state is a generation behind in properly funding education.
Source: State of Politics/Time Warner Cable
Date: April 7, 2016
A new front is opening in the opt-out wars, with Democratic state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli criticizing Republican incumbent George Amedore for not doing enough to halt the controversial standards.
Source: Spotlight News
Date: April 5, 2016
Sara Niccoli has announced her bid to unseat Republican George Amedore from State Senate.
Niccoli is a Democrat, farmer and supervisor of the Town of Palentine in Montgomery County. Locally, she is known for her advocacy work as director of the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State, where her efforts have been to raise minimum wage to $15.
Source: State of Politics/Time Warner Cable
Date: March 29, 2016
In a sign the $15 minimum wage proposal could be an issue in the upcoming fight for the state Senate, Democratic candidate Sara Niccoli is knocking Republican incumbent George Amedore over his opposition.
Source: Kingston Times/Hudson Valley One
Date: March 25, 2016
“Regular people, mothers and [sheep] farmers like me, need to step up.” That’s why Sara Niccoli, Democratic supervisor of the Town of Palatine in Montgomery County, says she’s running for state Senate. Ulster is the largest county in the five-county 46th Senate District, currently represented by first-term Republican George Amedore of Rotterdam.
Source: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Date: March 20, 2016