74 City Schools Face Budget Cuts
The city’s Department of Education has released a list of 74 schools that are to have their budgets cut by more than 5 percent. The list includes schools ranging from Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School of Science, to P.S. 5, the Huguenot School, an elementary school on Staten Island, to the Salk School of Science, a Manhattan middle school that is popular among middle-class parents.
The New York Times reports that the list of schools hardest hit includes those that are so high-performing or have so few high-need students that they are not eligible for certain pots of the new state money.
The $63 million is part of more than $640 million in new state aid stemming from a 1993 lawsuit by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a coalition of advocates, seeking more state money for city schools. As part of an agreement between the city and the state, as much as $385 million of the new money was to go to schools labeled by the state as failing or considered high-need because of poverty and other factors, like the numbers of students receiving special education services.
According to school officials, in addition to the 74 hardest-hit schools, more than 400 others would face budget cuts of more than 3 percent if the state does not relax its rules.
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