The city will create 39,500 new public school seats over the next five years with $4.4 billion in construction money, officials said Tuesday.
The budget includes $490 million to reduce class sizes and $480 million to scrap trailers used as temporary classrooms, Deputy Schools Chancellor Kathleen Grimm told the City Council.
Corona and Elmhurst in Queens will gain 2,376 new seats, Dyker Heights in Brooklyn will get 1,920 and lower Manhattan will get 1,928 seats.
That still leaves demand for 16,685 more seats citywide that aren’t funded in the budget.
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That comes out to $11,139 per seat in a new school. Folks spending is out of control.
Wow - it is time to offer incentives to people in Queens to LEAVE!!!
There are waaaaaay too many people here - esp. in the ghettos of Corona and Elmhurst. I feel sorry for these kids. You see parents dragging them around late at night - kids were in bed by 10:00 PM (by 8:00 PM!) on a school night when I was a child - not any more.
And the English their parents speak - or rather lack thereof. These kids have so many strikes against them. There will be bands of the uneducated and unemployed roaming the streets 50 years from now!
These people that feel it is their destiny to have 3+ kids are just selfish and stupid! Guess what - abortion is still legal!
Poster #2
Wow, funny how you notice a lot of issues while our elected do not and instead busy themselves with taking a salary to rename bridges and engage in perpetual fund raising.
That comes out to $11,139 per seat in a new school. Folks spending is out of control.
mere pikers to the record of the Queens Library Board of Developers that Gianaris is trying to whitewash in Albany,
Hey, the anchor babies need to receive their free education from the taxpayers. They need seats and they all live in Queens. Suck it up or move.
Check your math anon 4. It comes to 111k, not 11k, per seat.
Annual costs are more than 11k per student.
http://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/new-yorks-sky-high-public-school-spending/
'Just on instructional (mostly teachers) wages, salaries, and benefits, in FY 2012 New York City spent $13,627 per student – or $272,536 per 20 students – even though for most of the city’s children class sizes were far higher. And in reality the cost of the city’s teachers was even higher, because the city was underfunding its teacher pension plan...'
I'm sick of all this anti teacher union hate on this site. You guys have to find a new scapegoat for why you don't have enough money, quit blaming the hard working teachers that educate your children.
Simple Math Equation: Queens equals Dumping Ground for Illegal Aliens and their Anchor Babies.
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