We had a better year than anticipated, but like most districts we are experiencing
more budget cuts along with declining enrollment.
With the city
facing more budget cuts or even, as she suggested, «insolvency,» Miner was hoping for relief in an area where Albany is itself the prime culprit because of the exploding cost of pensions and benefits promised to public employees.
More revenue could help New York create jobs, create a fairer environment for small business,
prevent more budget cuts to state and local public services and the social safety net and even allow for restorations of some past funding cuts.
With the threat
of more budget cuts looming, more than 60 teachers, administrators and other staff at PS 3 in Bedford - Stuyvesant wore all black to work on Jan. 21 in one of a series of demonstrations at schools across the city that teacher - activists have dubbed «Fight Back Fridays.»
More teachers will be needed to teach students who don't really want to be there... and just
as more budget cuts are about to hit further...
Read Nancy Remsen's piece quoting Voices for Vermont's Children —
more budget cuts means shortchanging Vermont's kids.
With schools and other public services threatened
with more budget cuts this year, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined fellow labor leaders and representatives from community and education advocacy groups at a «99 New York» rally on Oct. 17 on the City Hall steps demanding that the state millionaire's tax be extended.
Unemployment has soared over 25 %, and
with more budget cutting to come, the economic prospects for the Greeks are unlikely to brighten anytime soon.
No more budget cuts until millionaires and corporate tax dodgers pay their fair share.»