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There is no excuse for cutting our public school budgets. I led my colleagues in writing a letter to

underscoring the need to prioritize our public schools in the city’s FY 2023 budget. Rolling back funding in our schools is unacceptable.

9:57 PM · Jul 7, 2022

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Hey

: There is no excuse that you can’t do simple math. With NYC public school enrollments down 7.0% and the budget down a mere 0.7%, the amount budgeted per student increased to $31,434. Source:

nypost.com

NYC Council's gripes on school cuts come with an extra heaping of...

Council members who truly care about kids ought to be railing, like Schools Chancellor Banks, not about cuts but about the poor quality of education schools provide despite all those billions.

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Our education system has been corrupted by Marxism from top to bottom. It must be completely rebuilt. Fund students, not systems.

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He is giving the money to police because as

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has said too many times “ 30 to 40% of the prisoners that are in Rikers Island, dyslexic”. wait how will cops help a kid who are dyslexic?

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Those leftover extra COVID funds needed to go to the schools, not the police.

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late writing this letter

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Get his ass

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He obviously hoodwinked the City Council into approving this budget… I thank you but more of them need to be up in arms as well.

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Thank you! I don’t understand how this is even a debate? What sense does it make to take significant amounts of money away from schools, ever, let alone right now?