Dive Brief:
- Months after assuring parents of New York middle school children that the summer school program would be funded, the administration cut the funds and redirected them. Thursday, after a hearing to discuss the education budget, the city council, parents and other supporters were told the summer funds would be restored.
- The administration had cut ome 17,000 openings for middle school students in some instances after children had been enrolled.
- The close to $28 million was to be redirected to low-performing schools, where pressure has been applied to make improvement.
Dive Insight:
The move takes money from schools with low-income students, however some of the money that has been restored is for summer programs in public housing projects.
“Where we made a commitment to a school, and they made plans,” Councilman Brad Lander from Brooklyn said during the hearing, “we surely should not yank those resources back and move them around, even if, to be fair, we’re giving them to a more low-income community.”