Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are back at the Capitol Tuesday in an effort to reach an agreement on a $168 billion spending plan. Lawmakers insist they are close on reaching a deal, with major issues being locked down. A flurry of meetings that stretched into the evening yielded little apparent success. Yet, some provisions remain unresolved.

Here are five things to watch for the rest of the week:

Will a budget pass by Thursday?

The budget is actually scheduled to be approved several days in advance of the April 1 deadline, the start of the state’s fiscal year. While it’s largely arbitrary when the budget is approved, Cuomo has made it a key signal of the government functioning under his watch. Last year, the budget was 10 days late as lawmakers negotiated thorny issues like criminal justice reform and raising the age of criminal responsibility. Before the 2017 talks, Cuomo presided over a string of budgets passing in the Legislature before the deadline passed or on April 1, making for “on time” or “timely” budgets that did not require extenders to keep state government funded. The budget was scheduled by the Senate and Assembly to be put to bed by March 29, a nod to Passover and Good Friday beginning this week and the Easter Sunday holiday coming early this year.

Will sexual harassment policies change?

Lawmakers and Cuomo are potentially reaching a deal on changing how the state handles sexual harassment allegations, a move that would potentially create a uniform standard for all branches of government to follow. The provision is one of the few policy-related matters that remains in the budget. It’s also a timely issue for Albany to tackle, given the national reckoning surrounding sexual misconduct. But Albany has had its own share of harassment scandals prior to the #MeToo movement, none of which spurred the reform push now underway. Survivors of sexual harassment who have worked in the Legislature have called on lawmakers to remove the issue from the context of the budget negotiations, saying state elected officials need to take a more thoughtful approach.

“Passing legislation that fails to include the input of survivors and advocates will not make New York the national leader on this issue we all want it to be,” they wrote in a statement released Monday. “It will not serve victims’ needs nor represent the realities that victims face. We are acutely aware that these issues are complex and cannot be meaningfully addressed in a rushed manner. Ill-considered reforms that fall far short of what is needed do more harm than good. We cannot afford to hang a “mission accomplished” banner on anything less than model legislation.”

How much education aid will be approved?

Lawmakers and Cuomo appear close to settling on a $1 billion figure to boost education spending. This short of the $1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high-needs districts. Foundation aid, meanwhile, could increase by as much as $600 million. The education funding battle is key for not just Cuomo, who faces a primary challenge from his left on the very issue, but also state lawmakers are seeking re-election this year. Cuomo has also called for greater transparency in how schools receive and spend money, arguing the inequities will be highlighted on the local, district level.

Will the Nixon primary change the calculus for Cuomo?

Cynthia Nixon made her first trip to Albany on Monday since announcing her gubernatorial campaign. She bashed Cuomo for working with Senate Republicans, saying whatever compromise is reached on the budget will ultimately be a tarnished product because of the governor’s alliance with GOP lawmakers. But Cuomo’s hands are tied: If he goes big in the budget for a moonshot issue like, say, the Dream Act, progressive advocates will poke holes in whatever compromises were needed to attain it. Similarly, Republicans may be in little mood to help a governor they have increasingly parted ways with in recent years. The Nixon challenge could be seen most acutely in the education or voting reform, an area in which Cuomo backs early voting and online registration. Cuomo does need provisions in the budget that will make life harder if he doesn’t get them, including money for the New York City Housing Authority as well as some sort of fee plan to generate revenue for mass transit in New York City.

Will Senate Republicans be in a mood to deal?

At the moment, it does not appear that way. A multitude of policy-laden issues, from the Child Victims Act, gun control and criminal justice reform. At one point, all appeared on the way to potential compromises. That doesn’t appear to be the case any longer. As liberals knock Cuomo’s work with Senate Republicans, GOP lawmakers have become increasingly at odds with a governor they say has sought to box them in and remove them from power in Albany after next month’s special election. Nearly all of the GOP conference has endorsed one of their own to run against Cuomo, Sen. John DeFrancisco, a feisty Syracuse lawmaker who has been known to get under the governor’s skin at times. DeFrancisco speaking with reporters on Monday afternoon seemed pleased the policy issues had been taken out of the budget talks.

“It just seems like things on the major issues are moving and many, if not all, of the policy issues are falling out,” he said. “It seems like we’re getting down to the dollars and cents, which is what a budget is.”