Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams came to an agreement on a $101 billion dollar city budget for the fiscal year of 2023. However, $215 million in cuts to education have upset city council members.
The budget highlights many community investments, however $215 million in cuts to education have deeply aggravated advocates and a handful of city councilmembers.
Adams also drilled down on adding $8.3 billion to the city’s reserves in what’s been consistently referred to as his ‘austerity budget.’ Duwors said other than the allocations for child care assistance to children who are undocumented, the cuts to K- 12 grades “make no sense” when there is still billions of dollars available, just in the reserves. She absolutely disagrees with mayoral control of the education system and is disappointed with Schools Chancellor David Banks “taking money away from children” as an educator himself.
Speaker Adams, along with City Councilemembers Rita Joseph and Gale Brewer, released a statement on school budgets on Monday as well. They explained that there had been “significant changes due to lost federal funding and declining enrollment in public schools,” but students were still the top priority as the city went back to its “existing school budget formula that it had suspended because of these pandemic-related federal funds.” The school’s student population declined by 120,000 students.
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