On tonight’s program: Our NY1 Wise Guys with former Rep. Michael McMahon; Full coverage of the President’s State of the Union address starting at 9 p.m.

The New York Times

Fernanda Santos notes: “On the issue of public school funding, at least one point of disagreement emerged at a hearing on Monday between the budgets proposed by the state’s Board of Regents and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo: the amount of money to be devoted to performance grants.”

Anna Phillips reports: “Many New York City teachers and principals are not using the city’s $80 million student information database, according to an audit released on Monday by the comptroller, John C. Liu.”

New York Post

Carl Campanile writes: “Republican lawmakers yesterday threw cold water on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s push for a legislative pay raise — at least for now.”

Yoav Gonen notes: “Not all good grades go on the fridge. Seven of the 33 schools where the city is seeking to fire half the staff were rated an A or B on their latest city-issued report cards, a review by The Post found. That means roughly 260 teachers are slated to be cleared out from schools that were just celebrated in the fall for making significant gains.”

Dave Seifman writes: “Don’t go tossing those sticker-scraping razor blades just yet if you’re an alternate-side parker. Mayor Bloomberg indicated yesterday that he will veto a City Council bill that would prohibit the Sanitation Department from attaching those gooey stickers on illegally parked vehicles on alternate-side days.”

New York Daily News

Pete Donohue reports: “The MTA could jack up the fine for farebeating from $100 to $500 under legislation the state Senate passed Monday.”

Barbara Ross notes: “On second thought, forget about the tents. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have dropped their appeal of a judge’s decision that found they had no right to use the privately-owned public space as a protest campground. In November, after the city evicted protestors from the park and its owner, Brookfield Properties, banned tents, tarps and sleeping bags, lawyers sued, saying their First Amendment rights were under attack.”

Wall Street Journal

Michael Howard Saul writes: “City Comptroller John Liu plans Tuesday to criticize Gov. Andrew Cuomo for proposing that the city again be left out of a funding package that delivered more than $700 million to municipalities statewide this fiscal year. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is also scheduled to testify in Albany on Tuesday about the impact of Mr. Cuomo's proposed state budget. The mayor is expected to release his preliminary budget for the city next week.”

Until tomorrow.

Bob Hardt