![]() Advocates are not only calling for school funding to be restored, but are asking the court to stop the City from shortchanging public participation in education. Since the City Council voted to adopt Mayor Adams’ budget in June, outraged New Yorkers have taken to the streets - and the courts - in vehement protest. It just shows how little the City Council Members and Mayor Adams care about our schools and the well-being of students.” “I have seen firsthand how funding affects my student life and school environment. “After hearing about the potential $5 million funding cut to my school – and much more to thousands of public schools in the City - I felt enraged and disappointed,” Chloe told us. Chloe Liang, a rising senior at Fort Hamilton High School and a youth organizer in the NYCLU’s Teen Activist Project (TAP), has spent her summer vacation coming to terms with the direct impacts these cuts will have on her education. Funding that supports students’ futures and educators’ livelihoods shouldn’t be cut - especially not now, as our city emerges from the trauma of the pandemic.ĭata analyzed by Chalkbeat shows cuts could meet or exceed $5 million at a single school – Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton High School. In his budget, Adams found enough cash to increase police spending but not enough to help schools retain student support, arts, and music programs. The sweeping cuts – estimated to top $300 million across 1,200 schools – demonstrate plainly the dangers of giving near total control over education to a mayor who does not value education. The City isn’t broke, and the State is sending New York City its portion of education funding without cuts, so why does Mayor Adams’ first budget slash classroom spending? ![]() Due to a $300 million budget cut to the City’s public schools, teachers, social workers, and other beloved school employees were told not to come back to work next year. ![]() ![]() It has been a summer of uncertainty and false scarcity for New York City’s schools. ![]()
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