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Advocates urge City Council to baseline education programs, press $450M accessibility and $100M provider asks
Summary
Advocates, parents and service providers told the City Council Education Committee to baseline funding for restorative justice, special education, mental health, reading interventions and early childhood programs, and to add large capital investment for school accessibility and workforce stabilization.
Dozens of advocates and school-community leaders told the New York City Council Education Committee in public testimony that the preliminary FY27 budget leaves many essential education programs vulnerable and urged the Council to baseline multi-year funding for services that advocates say prevent instability for students and providers.
Randy Levine, policy director at Advocates for Children of New York, said the city must “do more than maintain the status quo,” and outlined specific requests including $100 million to address a shortage of service providers for students with disabilities, $20 million for middle- and high-school reading intervention and $8 million each for behavioral specialists and English language learner instructional specialists. Levine called…
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