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The article reports on the shorter state tests, a four-year pause in having the scores count for teacher evaluations and revising the academic standards proposed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's Common Core task force.

The article informs that New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced increase wage per hour of all state workers and make the state first state in the U.S. to set pay for its public-sector employees and adds that the executive order has been criticized by the Business Council of New York State.

The article reports that the office of New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating parties who serve as middlemen in the credit-default-swaps market. Subpoenas have been issued to eight interdealer brokers in an effort to determine whether unlawful market manipulation took place. The market for credit-default swaps lacks a central regulator.

The article discusses the Standard & Poor's Ratings Service (S&P) of McGraw-Hill Cos. S&P has come under criticism for having had to sharply reduce the credit ratings it assigned to various investment products, and is one of several ratings agencies that agreed to modify their fee schedules as part of a settlement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

The article identifies UBS AG executive David Aufhauser as an unnamed person cited in a complaint filed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in connection with alleged wrongdoing by UBS concerning auction rate securities. Aufhauser has not been charged, but is said to have sold securities he owned based on inside knowledge of difficult market conditions.

The article reports that New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed civil fraud charges against the financial services firm UBS AG. The charges relate to the February, 2008 collapse of the so called "auction rate" securities market, and allege UBS sold the securities through deceptive marketing. Other U.S. states have filed similar charges.

The article reports that the New York State Supreme Court has sided with former New York Stock Exchange chief executive Richard Grasso in an effort by New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo to force Grasso to disgorge a portion of the $187.5 million in compensation he received while working at the Exchange.

The article discusses terms of an expected settlement between New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo and bond ratings firms Moody's Corp., Standard & Poor's Corp., and Fitch Ratings Ltd. Cuomo seeks to address what some people describe as a conflict of interest, whereby ratings firms get paid by the companies whose securities they rate.

The article reports that New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo issued subpoenas to 18 financial services companies as part of an investigation into the February, 2008 collapse of the market for auction-rate securities, financial products used by many schools and municipal governments. The companies stopped giving support to the market, leading to higher interest rates for the entities that issued the securities, and leaving investors with no means of selling them.

The article reports that the New York state attorney general intends to sue UnitedHealth Group over payment rates it sets for out-of-network service providers. New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo alleges that UnitedHealth resorts to measures that unfairly reduce the payments it must make to such providers.

The article focuses on an expansion of an investigation being conducted by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. The investigation centers on companies including CIT Group Inc. that allegedly illegally payed colleges and universities including Columbia University and the University of Texas to place their names on the schools' preferred lender lists. The lists are presented to college applicants that are seeking financing for their education.

The article focuses on Andrew Cuomo, the newly elected attorney general of New York state, who replaced Eliot Spitzer. A comparison of the political styles of the two men is presented. Cuomo's priorities and future cases which he will have to handle, including a case Mr. Spitzer brought against New York businessman Dick Grasso, are discussed.

The author expresses support towards New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to provide tax credits to parents who have children in parochial schools.

The author praises the educational reforms proposed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, which include changes in the process of rating teachers, removing the limit on charter schools and putting failing schools into receivership.

The article reports that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has banned hydraulic fracturing also known as fracking in Marcellus Shale due to his belief of its impact on public health.