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CITY BUDGET INFO
From EPP Details of the FY 05 Adopted City Budget
Here are the additional resources for the public school
system that resulted from negotiations between the City Council and the
Mayor:
CLASS SIZE REDUCTION…An
additional $10 million
In the Mayor’s
Executive Budget proposal, $25 million had been earmarked to keep classes
for third graders at the same size to cope
with the larger cohort of third graders in the 2004-05 school year. Because
of the Mayor’s grade retention policy, there may be anywhere from
8,000 to 10,000 third graders who will be forced to repeat the third
grade.
In the adopted budget, as outlined in the City Council summary,
only $14.7 million will go to hire additional teachers for the third
grade.
$10.3 million of the remaining earmarked funds will be matched by $10
million from the City Council to be used to reduce class sizes from kindergarten
to third grade.
It should be noted that all these estimates may change by the beginning
of the school year. The exact number of students who will be forced to
repeat the third grade will only be known after Level 1 students attending
summer school are re-tested. Both the Dept. of Education and the NYC
Council prefer to describe this as a $35 million program.
TEACHERS CHOICE…An
additional $16 million
This program provides funding for teacher supplies. The NYC Council was
able to restore funding for Teacher’s Choice for the 2003-04 school
year and did so again for the 2004-05 school year. Apparently, this is
another one of these ritualistic, year-by-year battles similar to cutbacks
and restorations of library hours. SCIENCE
TEACHERS…An additional
$1.340 million
A consortium of museums & zoos, headed up by the American Museum
of Natural History, will get these funds to provide extensive professional
development for science teachers and field trips, resource kits, and
supplies for participating schools.
AIDP …An additional $1.340
million
Schools that have lost their state funding for Attendance Improvement
and Dropout Prevention programs (because the programs succeeded) will
be able to continue services.
CSA PRINICIPAL LEADERSHIP CENTER…An
additional $157 thousand
Increases City Council support for this professional development center
for principals, AP’s, and other school supervisors.
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