Many SUNY schools prepare for funding cuts
June 19, 2008
All but one of the State University of New York’s research, four-year, and technology colleges will receive less state money this year than in 2007-08, but reductions vary from 1.3 percent to 5.83 percent, according to a plan trustees approved Tuesday.
Corning Community College, which is governed by a regional board of trustees, will not be [...]
Dept of Education Phantom Cuts
May 30, 2008
Nearly half the Department of Education’s $200 million in cuts to its administrative budget for the 2008-09 school year were achieved through slashing cost estimates rather than actual costs, officials said. They include $25 million in anticipated savings through tougher negotiations for bulk purchases and $45 million in “cash management” efficiencies.
Even though they’re labeled “nonschool” [...]
Chancellor Talks of Cuts for Schools, Amid Hissing
May 28, 2008
If Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein were looking for allies in his latest battle with state officials over education funding, he would have found few in the City Council chamber on Tuesday.
During a nearly four-hour hearing filled with skepticism that bordered on hostility from council members, Mr. Klein testified that the city badly needed more [...]
Albany’s forcing me to hurt best schools - Joel Klein
May 22, 2008
Schools chancellor Joel Klein is threatening to gut the budgets of the city’s best schools unless state officials lift rules forcing him to give failing schools more money than he thinks is fair.
Strings attached to state education dollars force the chancellor to spare struggling schools from the budget ax. Klein would prefer to distribute painful [...]
SUNY grapples with budget
May 16, 2008
A few months ago, then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer barnstormed the state promoting his dream to build a $4 billion endowment for SUNY and CUNY.
This week, SUNY trustee H. Carl McCall drew laughs at a board meeting with gallows humor about how he shouldn’t use the word “execution” when talking about what will have to be done [...]
Albany and Council Debate Who Owns Oversight of Leased DoE
May 13, 2008
Facing overcrowded classrooms and an expected budget crunch, New York City’s Department of Education has increasingly turned to leased buildings to help create new public schools in a hurry. But parents, politicians and environmental activists say that the leased sites leave too many loopholes in the safety review process.
“When the city plans construction on a [...]
City launches Greenwich Village charter school
May 9, 2008
The 560-seat elementary school will occupy the first six floors of the New York Foundling’s headquarters; New York Foundling will maintain offices on the upper floors.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on Friday announced an agreement to transform New York Foundling’s Greenwich Village headquarters into a 560-seat elementary school to serve families in [...]
Parents say NYC public schools overcrowded
May 9, 2008
Parents and public officials are warning that schools in some city neighborhoods are overcrowded, because a jump in residential development is not being matched with an increase in new educational facilities.
City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. said in a report to be released Friday that the school system’s capital planning processes were “broken,” according to the [...]
Joel Klein, Randi Weingarten blame each other for Education cuts
May 7, 2008
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said the teachers union - and policies that keep instructors from their classrooms - bear some of the blame for next school year’s budget cuts.
“Let’s be candid,” he said Tuesday of recent controversies over idle teachers. “What we’re hearing right now is a whole lot of stuff that’s about rhetoric….What we [...]
Educators Will Fight Cuts Likely To Result From Budget
May 2, 2008
City public schools are likely to face program cuts next year under the new budget proposed by Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, though pressure from a coalition including the principals union, the teachers union, and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity could lighten the blow.
The coalition Friday will kick off a full-scale campaign complete with radio, television, and [...]
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