UFT President Michael Mulgrew joins educators, parents, unionists and elected officials on the steps of City Hall on Sept. 23 in warning against
midyear school budget cuts.
Not exact matches
The city is telling all public
school principals to prepare for a 1.5 %
midyear budget cut.
On the same day that Gov. David Paterson announced that this year's state
budget deficit is growing and could reach $ 3 billion, the UFT joined education, labor, parent and community groups at a Sept. 23 rally on the City Hall steps to try to head off
midyear cuts to
schools.
Under the shadow of $ 223 million in proposed state
midyear cuts to New York City
schools, the UFT surveyed its chapter leaders in October about the impact of the $ 400 million in city
budget cuts that city
schools already absorbed this fall.
With
school budgets already in place, Mulgrew predicted that «any
midyear cuts mean removing services and disrupting continuity of support.»
A $ 223 million
midyear budget cut — the amount that Gov. David Paterson is threatening to take from city
schools in January — will do real damage to classrooms if a union survey of the harm already wrought by the $ 400 million in city
budget cuts this fall is any indication.
This modest increase created
budget pressures for the
school district that required some
midyear cuts, but the district managed to end the fiscal year with a small surplus.
Those efforts emerge as a priority in the 2010 legislative season, even as many cash - strapped states face the prospect of tough spending decisions — including
school budget cuts — on top of the
midyear cuts they enacted in recent months.
A number of Baltimore
schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following
midyear budget cuts.Nearly 130 staff members were left looking for job placements after the city
school district imposed
budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to...
Worst of all, the sequestration will occur in the middle of the 2012 — 13
school year, so educators will have to not only find a way to accurately plan next year's
school budget but also scramble to develop contingency plans to deal with massive
midyear programmatic
cuts should they actually come to pass.
Second, in January 2009, the Interim Superintendent announced a plan to pass nearly 100 percent of a $ 17 million
midyear budget cut on to
school sites.
That's because
school officials largely skirted a state law ordering them to ignore the possibility of dramatic
midyear budget cuts when planning their finances earlier this year.
The threat of additional,
midyear cuts to
schools posed by the newly adopted
budget plan is unlikely, sources briefed on the deal said Tuesday.