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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Tell Bloomberg, “No cuts!” « Fred Klonsky's blog

Tell Bloomberg, “No cuts!” « Fred Klonsky's blog

Tell Bloomberg, “No cuts!”

From Leonie Haimson:

The mayor announced his proposed budget on Friday. It is a horror show. It would lead to the elimination of over 6,000 teaching positions, while leaving the central and mid-level bureaucracy intact and continuing to increase spending on private consultants and contracts.

It is a budget that puts kids LAST; and would cause the sharpest increases in class size in at least 30 years. I have blogged about this here and here, and here is a NY1 clip about the