In testomony to the political energy of the United Federation of Academics, spending on the general public colleges now accounts for greater than a 3rd of New York Metropolis’s funds — and the lady nominally in control of the Division of Schooling, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, simply advised the Metropolis Council she wants even extra.
The DOE’s already penciled in for $41.2 billion within the coming 12 months, up greater than $800 million from the 12 months earlier than.
However Aviles-Ramos says that’s not sufficient to cowl this 12 months’s invoice (round $400 million) for implementing the class-size-reduction regulation (which the UFT obtained its Albany pawns to impose), nor for executing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ban on cellphones at school.
God forbid the DOE discover the class-size cash someplace else in its funds — or that it clarify convincingly why the ban want value a dime.
The company’s motto may was effectively be: “No cheese will get moved with out more money for the ‘stakeholders.’”
Prime amongst them, the UFT, which has Albany steadily chipping away on the mayoral-control regulation — which solely turned regulation after then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg bribed the union with large pay hikes twenty years in the past.
Truancy is up, enrollment is down, check scores have declined — and the one reply given is “give us extra.”
No surprise mother and father are desirous to get their youngsters out of the system and into constitution colleges or different districts.
“Public servant” is meant to imply “serving the general public,” however all the metropolis Division of Schooling appears to assume it means “served by the general public.”
Some day, a way, a really impolite awakening is forward.
