The Governor would cut funding for the state university system. He would slash tuition support for the children of poor and working class parents who depend on aid or work study programs to pay their way. He'll pay for a tax cut skewed to the affluent, while pumping more money into the state's prison complex, providing it with more operating money and a new maximum security prison - even as violent crime rates are down. Yet this makes sense in a perverse way. If you aren't going to invest in schools on the front-side of life, then you'll end up paying more for prisons on the backside.
Bad schools serve as a feeder system to the jail industrial complex.
Half of all new housing built in recent years has been prison cells. Invest on the front-side or pay more on the backside. The Governor does offer more money for charter schools which is charming. But there are 4,166 public schools in New York and fewer than 100 charter schools. Supporting charter schools is like giving a nice bauble to a hungry child who has no coat.