“I love this city and I love the children and families of the city,” Mayor Adams told a small group of parents opposing budget cuts to public schools. “The tough choices I have to make, they keep me up at night, but I’ve got to make these choices.'
Since the budget passed in June, education officials have said the initial $215 million in cuts only represented last year’s decline in enrollment. For the coming school year, the agency projected an additional decline of 30,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, causing many individual schools to face even steeper cuts. Some principals, however, said the enrollment projections the city made for their schools are too low, driving down budgets more than they should be.
City schools have lost more than 85,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade during the pandemic. Over the past two years, the city used federal stimulus money to hold school budgets steady despite the decline, and the Adams administration said it plans to use remaining federal dollars to phase in the cuts so schools don’t face the full impact of enrollment-based reductions all at once.
“None of us want to be here,” Flores said. “We want to be at Coney Island having hot dogs or whatever it is that people do in the summer. We don't want to be here asking for money again and asking for the social supports, the teacher, the art teacher, the things that every kid should have.”
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