On Monday, May 4th, 2010, the NYS Senate voted 45-15 to raise the state's cap on charter schools from 200 to 460, partly in an effort to get federal “Race to the Top” funding. Now the bill is in the Assembly. 

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State Senators who voted "no" include:  Neil Breslin, Tom Duane, Liz Krueger, Ken LaValle, Velmanette Montgomery, Suzi Oppenheimer, Frank Padavan, Bill Perkins, Stephen Saland, Eric Schneiderman, Jose Serrano, William Stachowski, Toby Ann Stavisky, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antoine Thompson.