Equity in New York Interscholastic Athletics

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Advocacy Campaign

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Fairness Is Not a Question for an Ad Hoc Committee.

On April 24, NYSPHSAA Treated It as One.

Equity for public school students should never be a discretionary matter. The Board of Regents would never put equity to a membership poll, and would sanction any public school district that did.

Yet, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association operates as though fairness in postseason competition is optional and a structure that harms public school students is a question for an ad hoc committee to consider. This gross negligence is unacceptable and profoundly harmful to public school athletes across New York State.

Harrison Superintendent Dr. Louis Wool laid out the full case in his guest opinion in Syracuse.com, linked here.

What the NYSPHSAA approach has produced:

December 2024. The NYSPHSAA Class AA football state championship was contested between Christian Brothers Academy of Syracuse and Christian Brothers Academy of Albany. No public school on the field.
Fall 2025. Five Central New York public high schools withdrew from their football division rather than continue scheduling CBA Syracuse, on a 41-game winning streak with three consecutive state titles. The one that played lost 63-0.
In our region. Albertus Magnus, an open-enrollment school, has won three New York state girls soccer titles in four years and three consecutive state girls basketball championships, including this season. Its published list of Division I destinations describes a recruitment pipeline, not a geography.
Three years of formal advocacy by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents, representing 78 public districts, produced a structured proposal for separate postseason competition that NYSPHSAA refused to act on.
April 24, 2026. NYSPHSAA produced another two years of “study.” Two more graduating classes are now asked to compete in contests, but the rules of competition do not permit them to win.

Stand up for fairness for New York public school student athletes.

Use the form below to send a letter to Dr. Betty A. Rosa, New York State Commissioner of Education, asking her and the Board of Regents to take direct oversight of interscholastic athletics in New York. Your state senator, assembly member, Regent, NYSPHSAA leadership, and the Governor’s office will be copied automatically based on your home address. The letter is editable. A sentence of your own carries further than a thousand identical ones.

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