Individual schools’ budgets cover expenses like staff salaries and other fundamentals. But the rest of the DOE budget which pays for a wide array of programs and services for students is set to drop $959 million.
Nearly 30,000 families may be shut out of the city’s free summer school and camp program this year as demand for the popular program continues to outstrip available space, according to figures provided Wednesday to the City Council.
Dozens of students, professors and staff, and elected officials rallied Thursday over budget cuts to the The City University of New York that they say will make it harder for many students to earn college diplomas.
If effective, the new reading instruction policy focusing on phonics could mark a seismic shift in a city where less than half of 3rd through 8th graders scored proficient on state reading exams last year. More than 63% of Black and Hispanic test-takers did not make the grade.