By: Lindsey Christ
Though New York City schools are being slammed with heavy budget cuts, a close look at the education budget reveals that close to $900 million will be spent on technology next fiscal year. NY1’s Lindsey Christ filed the following report.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg still calls himself the “education mayor,” but [...]

BY Ben Chapman
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Thursday, May 26th 2011, 4:00 AM
The city plans to save money by increasing class sizes for special education kids, outraging parents and educators who say students will suffer under the new system.
Education officials quietly voted last week to reduce funding and increase class sizes by about 20% for [...]

May 23, 2011

By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, facing a reduction in state and federal aid and a rise in city costs, has said that balancing New York’s budget will require shuttering 20 firehouses and laying off 4,100 teachers.
“We’re going to have to make some choices,” Mr. Bloomberg said [...]

by Beth Fertig
NEW YORK, NY June 21, 2010 —A proposal to eliminate the state’s annual exams in social studies for elementary and middle school students will be considered Monday by a Board of Regents committee.
The state’s education department says the reason is purely financial. Before No Child Left Behind’s testing [...]

BY John Bayles
On Tuesday Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Council approved a budget of $63 billion for FY ’11. It ended weeks of despair for numerous groups whose programs were on the chopping block.
No group can be happier than the students, parents and staff of the after [...]

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Immigrant Services/Adult Literacy
Adult Literacy providers, who had been threatened with a complete loss of City funding, were gratified to win a significant restoration of funding.  The City Council’s own $1.5 million adult literacy initiative, spearheaded by Council Member Sara Gonzalez, was completely restored.  At the same time, [...]