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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: Legal Battle: Will NYC Public Schools Get the Funding they Need?
Description: There are ~1,800 public schools in NYC serving 1 million students. But even though school will start in a month, most schools don't know what their annual budget will be and whether they will have to lay off staff. The matter appeared to be settled on June 13 when Mayor Eric Adams pushed the City’s annual budget through City Council with hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to school funding. But on Friday New York Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank ruled that the process upon which the Department of Education's budget was established violated state law and allowed City Hall a ne...