NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The New York City Council scheduled a hearing on school budget cuts that will impact the amount spent per student contrary to Mayor Eric Adams assurances that the reduction would be accounted for by falling enrollment rates.
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On Friday at noon, the City Council’s Education Committee and Oversight and Investigations Committee plan to hold a joint hearing on the Department of Education’s changes to the formula used to calculate how much money is allotted to each school.
“The Committees will focus on decisions by DOE, including its use of funding formulas and federal stimulus funds, that have led to some schools receiving lower budgets for the upcoming year,” wrote the Council in a press release.
The hearing was announced a day after a New York Post report revealed changes to the Fair Student Funding formula would result in a decrease in the amount the city spends per student.
The formula takes into account the number of students enrolled and the needs of each student.
Starting this fall, schools will get baseline funding of $4,197.19 for each student — a decrease of $25.81 per child.
Extra funds are allocated based on needs like academic help, disabilities or learning English as a second language. Those funds could be reduced in addition to the baseline resulting in even deeper cuts.
Mayor Eric Adams said the $215 million school funding cuts in his 2023 budget were fully accounted for by declining enrollment.
The City Council passed the budget earlier this month.
“Not one child is going to lose money from the Fair Student Funding,” said Adams.
The Post report revealed that every student in New York City public schools is going to lose money from Fair Student Funding.
New York City schools are already seeing the impact of Adams’ cuts.
Schools across the city are firing staff and ditching programs in anticipation of budget cuts as high as $1 million for some schools, Gothamist reported.
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