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August 1, 2022 1. The lawsuit to restore the budget cuts to schools and provide the City Council with another chance to vote on the education budget will be heard this Thursday, August 4 at 10 AM in the NY State Supreme Court, 80 Centre St. in Room 308. Please join us in the courtroom […]
August 2, 2022 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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July 31, 2022 There has been much confusion around the amount of school budget cuts for next year. While the DOE originally claimed $215 million had been cut from the Fair Student Funding (FSF) amounts, it turned out that this amount did not include cuts made because of DOE’s projections of continued enrollment decline. The […]
July 31, 2022 in Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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July 24, 2022 Great news! Late Friday afternoon, Judge Lyle Frank of the State Supreme Court granted a Temporary Restraining Order to block the devastating school budget cuts, in response to the lawsuit filed by four parents and teachers on July 18. Our press release is here, along with a copy of the court order. […]
July 23, 2022 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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Update: the lawsuit was covered by the Daily News, AM New York, Chalkbeat, and CBS radio so far. The legal papers are posted here. For immediate release: July 18, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]; Laura D. Barbieri 914-819-3387; [email protected] NYC Parents And Teachers File Lawsuit Today Against Mayor Adams’ Savage Cuts To School […]
July 18, 2022 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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On July 18, 2022, four parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court on July 18, 2022 to block the Mayor’s budget cuts to schools in the case Tucker et. al. vs the City of NY. Subsequently, the New York City Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in the case. The […]
July 18, 2022 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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July 15, 2022 Yesterday, July 14, we again analyzed the total Galaxy school budgets via an automated mechanism, scraping the data posted on the DOE Galaxy look-up tool here . Our new spreadsheet is here. According to our analysis, the overall school cuts for FY 23 now total about $1.42 billion compared to FY 22; […]
July 15, 2022 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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For immediate release: July 1, 2022 Contact: Marina Marcou-O’Malley: 518-894-6834, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Anger and distress at Gov. Hochul refusing to sign class size bill along with mayoral control bill Parents, education advocates and elected officials reacted with dismay and alarm at the fact that Gov. Hochul signed the mayoral control bill last […]
July 3, 2022 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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Below is our testimony from the July 24, 2022 joint hearings of the City Council Education and Oversight/Investigation Committees. If you’d like to hear our account of the hearings, and the absurd claims made by the Deputy Chancellor, it’s posted here.
June 25, 2022 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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See below; a budget presentation by the DOE dated June 21, showing unspent allocations to schools and districts of $1.1 billion from FY 2020 and FY 2021, which administrators are urged to cancel so they the funds can be used by DOE in the future. These funds are in addition to the $8 billion in […]
June 23, 2022 in Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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June 21, 2022 Dear folks, Important updates: This Friday June 24 at 11:30 AM in front of City Hall there will be a press conference/rally to protest the devastating budget cuts to schools. Please come and bring signs. Then starting at noon, there will be hybrid Council hearings on these cuts, held by the NYC […]
June 21, 2022 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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