Monday, January 25, 2016
Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More
Mayor Bill de Blasio is dedicating $159 million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently well below what they should be receiving, according to his self-avowed "boring" preliminary budget released Thursday.
With the added funding, no school will get less than 87 percent of its “Fair Student Funding” allocation, the mayor said.
But that increase was not sufficient, said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who has asked to take additional steps and outline how and when schools will be fully funded. . .