Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos has some nerve – Latest News
In testomony to the political energy of the United Federation of Teachers, spending on the public colleges now accounts for more than a third of New York City’s price range — and the lady nominally in charge of the Department of Education, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, simply informed the City Council she wants even more.
The DOE’s already penciled in for $41.2 billion within the coming 12 months, up more than $800 million from the 12 months earlier than.
But Aviles-Ramos says that’s not enough to cowl this 12 months’s invoice (round $400 million) for implementing the class-size-reduction law (which the UFT obtained its Albany pawns to impose), nor for executing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ban on cellphones at school.
God forbid the DOE discover the class-size money some other place in its price range — or that it clarify convincingly why the ban need value a dime.
The company’s motto would possibly was properly be: “No cheese gets moved without more cash for the ‘stakeholders.’”
Prime amongst them, the UFT, which has Albany steadily chipping away on the mayoral-control law — which solely grew to become law after then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg bribed the union with huge pay hikes twenty years in the past.
Truancy is up, enrollment is down, take a look at scores have declined — and the one reply given is “give us more.”
No marvel mother and father are wanting to get their children out of the system and into constitution colleges or different districts.
“Public servant” is meant to imply “serving the public,” however the whole metropolis Department of Education appears to suppose it means “served by the public.”
Some day, some approach, a very impolite awakening is forward.
