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While proponents of Governor Hochul’s initiative to reduce class sizes argue it will bolster the quality of education across New York City public schools,…
Adams has argued that school budget reductions are a necessary response to declining enrollment. But educators and parents argue that students are hurting right now and need as much help as possible.
To show how those cuts affect each school, Chalkbeat created a lookup tool examining changes to Fair Student Funding, a major source of funding for schools.
Budgets for city public schools are largely based on enrollment — and schools have shed roughly 70,000 K-12 students since the 2019-2020 school year, with students opting for homeschool in increasing numbers, enrolling in charter or private schools, or leaving the city altogether.
Despite cuts to the teaching workforce, school budgets, and the ranks of school safety agents, Adams’ budget proposal would boost overall city spending on schools by 3% compared to last year.
Despite support from many teachers and parents, the class size proposal met resistance from the city’s education department, which argued that the bill was unworkable.
NYC’s plan to hire 500 full-time social workers is still short of the need: analysis
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Flush with federal stimulus money, Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed hiring 500 more social workers as children return to buildings carrying the trauma from the pandemic’s grip on New York City.
The hiring spree would ensure every school has at least one full-time social worker or access to a school-based mental health clinic, city officials have said.
But that plan still leaves 75 schools without a full-time social worker, according to a new analysis from the Independent Budget Office, or the IBO.