If you ask New Yorkers why their city is the best, chances are you’ll get a spiel in return, but local elections will never make the list. In the most important municipality in the world’s most influential democracy, anemic voter turnout, uncompetitive general elections, and ham-fisted election administration mark the electoral landscape.
To show how those cuts affect each school, Chalkbeat created a lookup tool examining changes to Fair Student Funding, a major source of funding for schools.