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A state comptroller audit finds the vast majority of city schools lacking sufficient school counselors and social workers.

Dozens of advocacy groups are raising the alarm that restorative justice funding is “at risk” — including a planned expansion of restorative justice programs to all middle and high schools.

“Restorative justice,” an approach that encourages students to repair the harm they’ve caused through misbehavior instead of meting out suspensions and expulsions, was a priority of former Mayor de Blasio’s administration.

But like most things within the nation’s largest school district, what happens across the city’s 1,600 schools often varies school to school. 

A New York City non-profit bringing “Drag Queen Story Hour” to public schools for children as young as age 3 received more than $200,000 in taxpayer funding in the past five years, city records show.