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NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL BUDGET CLIMBS WHILE ENROLLMENT PLUMMETS: 'SOMETHING IS GOING
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by KRISTINA WATROBSKI | Crisis in the Classroom

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NEW YORK CITY (CITC) — New York City parents are raising red flags about funding
trends in their local school system, where a $4 billion budget increase is
coinciding with a loss of nearly 100,000 students.

Data released by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) suggests that
families have been steadily removing their children from the city's public
school system for years. NYC public schools have experienced a nearly 10%
decline in enrollment since the 2019-20 academic year, with 906,977 students
attending the city's schools this year.

Despite NYC public schools teaching fewer students, the school system's spending
has seemingly soared over the same five-year period. According to departmental
data, the NYC DOE's budget has increased by $4 billion since the 2019-20
academic year, representing a 12% increase.

NYC DOE's reported annual budget excludes any money allocated towards
transportation, food costs or debt services.

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"We've topped out in New York City. I don't think you can spend any more money
per student and get these kinds of terrible results," Maud Maron, an NYC parent
and the co-president of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education
NYC (PLACE NYC), told Crisis in the Classroom (CITC).

NYC's per-student spending is expected to reach $31,434 this fiscal year, more
than double the national average.

"If I saw that more money was producing better results for kids, I'd be out
there on the front lines fighting for more money," Maron told CITC. "And I was
early on as a parent advocate ... but at this point, it's pretty clear that it's
not solving the problems."

To Maron, the "problems" being neglected range from learning losses to chronic
absenteeism to school safety. However, most important to her and many other NYC
parents are test scores.

In September, less than 50% of NYC public school students were considered
proficient in both math and reading. Math proficiency has fallen by nearly 8%
since 2019, while reading proficiency has improved by 1.6%.

A breakdown of reading proficiency rates reveals significant racial disparities.
According to NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, 64% of Black students and 63%
of Latino students are still not proficient, compared to 33% of White students.

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The release of the test score data coincided with New York State Gov. Kathy
Hochul signing off on class size reduction legislation. The bill, backed by
NYC's teachers union, will significantly lower the maximum number of students
that can be assigned to each city classroom beginning this fall.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has previously protested the legislation, arguing that it
will divert focus from assisting struggling students and create a larger expense
for NYC public schools. City officials have estimated that it may cost nearly
$500 million to reduce just K-5 class sizes in the city.

"Our schools are now going to have to hire over 17,700 new teachers to teach
136,000 fewer students," Maron told CITC. "If you really do a hard look at New
York City schools, you see that some of our classes that have the highest number
of students per teacher are doing the best academically, and the schools that
have a really low number are doing fairly poorly academically."

Maron, whose eldest child of four attending NYC public schools is a high school
senior, believes the school system has been on a years-long decline due to
shifting focus towards "non-academic things."


NYC has launched various initiatives in its public schools in recent years.

Earlier this month, Adams announced a first-in-the-nation "mindful breathing"
program. Students as young as pre-K will be required to practice "mindful
breathing" for up to five minutes daily to improve mental and physical health,
as well as enhance social-emotional learning.


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'It's hard to take it seriously'

It is not immediately clear how much funding is being allocated towards the
program. NYC teachers began receiving related training in March.

"The academics suffer when you don't focus on academics," Maron told CITC. "The
enormity of these numbers, especially when you compare them to charter schools
in our city who have not lost these kind of numbers, private schools who have
not lost these kind of numbers, tells you that something is going wrong."


Charter school enrollment in NYC has increased by 8.9% since the 2019-20
academic year, according to data from the New York State Education Department
(NYSED). Students in those schools saw significantly higher proficiency rates in
math and reading than NYC public school students last year.

As NYC public school students return to the classroom this fall, Maron is urging
education officials to abandon a "one-size-fits-all" approach. To her, the NYC
DOE can accomplish that through an "unabashed" return to rewarding merit.

"There's been a real shying away from the idea of merit as if there's something
wrong with acknowledging that some kids are ready to do grade work well above
other kids," Maron told CITC. "What I think you need to do is acknowledge those
differentials exist and work hard to meet kids where they are."

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CITC reached out to the NYC DOE for comment, but did not receive a response
prior to publication. This story will be updated if a response is received.


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