Mayor Eric Adams and The Members of The New York City Council Have Cut $557.5 Million Dollars to The Education of Our Children

 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

By Former NYC Councilman

Rev. Ruben Diaz

You should know that Mayor Eric Adams and the NYC City Council members have approved the budget for the Fiscal Year 2023, which will be devastating to the education of our children.

 

It is important for you to know that the Education of our children will receive a cut of $557.5 million dollars directly affecting the schools in low-income areas more so than in any of the other sectors. 

Hundreds of teachers have already received their notices that they are not to report to their teaching jobs in the next coming school year because of these cuts.  Once again, the Democratic Party takes actions that directly affect the future of our children.

You should know that both Mayor Adams and the city council members ALL, during their political campaigns, promised to watch over and protect our children's education, lower rents, create affordable housing, and repair public housing.

 

According to news reports, during the COVID pandemic,Congress passed the This Act allocated $7 BILLION dollars to the City of New York and the Department of Education.  Out of those funds allocated to the City, $4.3 BILLION were not used and as a result those funds are now in reserve. The question is why cut the funding for our children's education? And why keep this amount of funds, already allocated to the New York City Schools, in reserve?

  

How is it possible that Mayor Adams and the City Council, intend to cut $557.5 MILLION to the education of our children, and keep hidden $4.7 BILLION in reserve?  No doubt this will serve the Democrats with talking points to blame Donald Trump and the Republicans as racists, vile and perverse.  Which is ironic given that in the State of New York, the Governor, The Senate, the State Assembly, the Mayor and the City Council are all Democrats.  

You should know that this state is totally controlled by the Democratic Party. They are the ones who are ignoring the well-being and education of our children. 

It is my responsibility, as a Conservative Democrat, to be the voice of one who cries out in the wilderness, and to inform my readers of the atrocities and barbarities that our own legislators and representatives have been subjecting us to year after year. 

My advice to Mayor Adams and the members of the NYC City Council is to take the needed $557.5 MILLION dollars out of the 4.7 BILLION that was not used from the "Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act." and restore the funds they eliminated from our children’s Education and return the teachers to their classrooms.    It's as simple as That!

 

I am Rev. Ruben Diaz, and this is What You Should Know.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

The former City Councilman fails to remember that public school budgets are driven by the enrollment of students in a school. While a school is given a certain amount of money for administration, it is the number of students that makes up the rest of the school budget. 

A projected student enrollment is done for the opening of the school year, but it is the October 31 student population that will either add or subtract to the estimated school budget. The more students a school has over projection, then more money will be added to the school budget. the less students the school has from the projection will mean that the school budget will have to be cut to match the enrollment numbers. 

New York City as a whole has lost public school students due to certain mandates that were put in place, movement of families elsewhere, and deaths due to COVID-19.