Principals were still reviewing their new spending plans Tuesday.
Mayor Eric Adams is cutting budgets for schools that have seen declining enrollment.While New York City public school principals await the fiscal fallout from a state mandate for smaller classrooms, some are seeing their budgets drop already because of declining enrollment at their schools.at schools where enrollments have gone down, arguing that schools with fewer students require fewer resources. Principals received their initial budgets this week and are still digesting the impact.
When explaining the city’s plan for enrollment-related cuts, Adams administration officials promised to soften the blow by using federal stimulus funds to phase in the changes over the next two years. That means schools will still be getting more money for next fall than they would have, purely based on their enrollment, but less than they received this year.
Just a few days ago, Leonie Haimson, the executive director of the advocacy group Class Size Matters, was celebrating newShe said she can’t see how schools will be able to meet those new targets if many are getting less funding next year. Cannizzaro said one thing is clear: there’s no additional funding to reduce class size at this point. Instead, some schools with declining enrollments may have to combine and increase classes, while others could make cuts elsewhere.
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