Where are the students?
NYC schools are losing 4% of its students next year. The budget is growing 8%.
Last year the NYC Department of Education projections for school year 25-26 totaled 766,730 students. The school year 26-27 projections have a total of 734,551 students.
This is a 4.2% enrollment drop.
But the 26-27 proposed budget for the DOE has a $3 billion, or 8% increase.
I explained how NYC and other cities can’t afford this disconnect between enrollment and budget on my latest article for the DailyWire:
Unfortunately our Mayor still hasn’t realized that this is financially unsustainable and bragged on a video that he didn’t follow the advice that my colleagues and I provided in our articles in the NY Post.
Instead, he used gimmicks to “balance” the budget and is putting our city in a dangerous fiscal trajectory as Eric Kober explains.
“Enough uncertainty exists for New Yorkers to be concerned at Mamdani’s blithe confidence that he can keep spending more than the city takes in, balancing the budget with one-shots, borrowing, and tax hikes.”
What I am reading this week
America’s fastest-improving school system still falls short (The Hechinger Report)
3rd-Grade Retention Isn’t Really About Kids — It’s About Adults Who Teach Them (The74)
How GOP Governors Can Rescue Higher Education (City Journal)
Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’ (NYT)
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