Mary Levy, a longtime
independent budget analyst for the D.C. schools and a former DCPS parent, says it was well - known that some teachers shouldn't have been there, but they were hard to fire.
But
independent budget analysts take a dimmer view of the spending caps put in place, saying the effort hasn't gone far enough.
Independent budget analysts for the Suffolk County Legislature say County Executive Steve Bellone's budget next year has a potential $ 50 - million hole in it.
Fiscal watchdogs and
independent budget analysts have estimated those proposed cuts — which include a shift in how the City University of New York schools are funded, city assumption of its own growth in Medicaid costs, and a state clawback of savings the city achieved through a debt refinancing — would cost the city nearly $ 1 billion in the coming fiscal year, an amount that would increase with each passing year.
Not exact matches
In late February, Levy, the
independent D.C.
budget analyst, went before the city council to testify about the district's low academic performance.