New York, NY – Tuesday either is or isn’t the next-to-last day of school for public school students, depending on which version of the end-of-year schedule their school has adopted. But it begins with good news for children and families in New York City.
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The annual city budget dance has ended, and the City Council and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have waltzed to a deal for a $68.5 billion package that includes no tax increases, no firehouse closings, no widespread layoffs of teachers or others, David W. Chen reports in The New York Times — and, in fact, slight increases to some services for children and families.
So, obviously, all of those protests over the last few months were the perfect background music for the Council-mayor dance, as it brought it to a conclusion that protects some of the city’s most vulnerable families.
Read more at the NY Times
Why does spending more and more of our taxpayers hard working money on “school-children” for after hours learning (hey, didnt they learn the whole day or are they kollel yungerleit already?) scxh “good news”, why not just scrap all these (well meaning) grants and spending more money and just tax the people the people who pay for these programs a little less (if that was possible).
Each time I go past the public schools I am more disgusted by the products (and by the teachers too) and after spending an average $17,000 a student we should be doing alot better?
And the after school program pays the schools enough for a whole tuition (thats why the schools take much less tuition from the parents of the after schoolers) and I have no idea why these kids cant go home just like the other children, and why – just because they are poor – should these be zoiche to additional school is beyond me !
” … a $68.5 billion package that includes no tax increases, no firehouse closings, no widespread layoffs of teachers or others”
Now, let me guess. Yes, I’ve got it! It’s an election year.