Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council have voted to cut school budgets by $215 million. The budget cuts took effect on July 1 and will continue through June 2023.
The cuts are a departure from De Blasio’s pandemic policy that increased funding for schools during the pandemic from the federal coronavirus relief fund.
Adams proclaimed that the cuts are due to the lack of enrollment in city public schools.
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It’s sad to see how such a small school and I mean small can continue to be pinched off every little corner. I remember when my daughter went to that school and it was always tight. One class room going into another. The cafeteria being turned into a gym ,an auditorium, a music class , and so on because the space was so limited. For the DOE to take away from them is heartbreaking. The staff tries so hard to make do as is. As a Greenpoint parent, we should help all the neighborhood schools. Ps 31, Ps 110 and Ps 34 because there is so much over crowding.
Ironic that PS 34 is a public school with no tuition, but children are selling lemonade and there are other things that parents are doing to raise money for what should be a free education. Instead of taking money away from what is necessary, how about cutting the ties with the companies that charge for the yearly, but unnecessary testing.
The DOE said to the council that “no one would be fired,” but also failed to clarify that teachers would be excessed. This is a sneaky garbage move. The real agenda is the destruction of public ed and the funds being redirected to charters. We need to actively speak up against this. Charters= publicly subsidized, privately profitable. Charters can discriminate against who they want to accept. As a DOE special ed teacher I am vehemently against this. I live right by PS 34 and I hope we as a community can further help support the school. I always buy their merch when I see them selling it. 🙂
teachers lost their jobs because of your vote for eric adams’ budget. is this the place where i write that our CC rep went to a school that costs 50K for pre-school?