Elizabeth A. Harris reports in The New York Times that gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, a Democrat, released her education platform on June 13, and it is expansive and expensive. The $7.4 billion plan includes a $700 million addition of child care subsidies plus free college tuition. She says she wants to change a system where “white, wealthy children are prepared for college, and low-income children of color are disproportionately put into the school-to-prison pipeline.” There is also a $4.2 billion increase in funding for K-12 education. Nixon would raise taxes on high earners and increase what the state brings in from corporations to pay for the program with a so-called “millionaires tax” on families earning $300,000 a year or more. Dani Lever, a spokesperson for her opponent, incumbent Andrew Cuomo, defended the governor in a statement saying that “New York spends more per pupil than any state in the nation — a record $27 billion per year (a 36 percent increase since 2012).” Read the full story in The New York Times.