City Council demands Mayor Adams restore school budget after recent cuts

By Isabel Song Beer

Posted on July 13, 2022

A super majority of members of the New York City Council called for Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David C. Banks to restore individual school budgets by using the more than $700 million in newly-discovered unspent federal stimulus funds.

In a July 12 letter signed by 41 of the Council’s 51 members, councilmembers demanded immediate action from the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to restore public school budgets that were previously slashed in the City’s Executive Budget by $200 million.