Today's Headlines: 8/30/25
The city Department of Education will spend a staggering $42,168 per student this school year, budget experts project, even as enrollment declines and student achievement stalls. The record sum is nearly $2,000 per student more than the DOE spent last year, according to the nonprofit think tank Citizens Budget Commission.
Students report to class Sept. 4.Per-pupil costs are rising as the number of students has gone down. Last year, the city counted about 815,000 students enrolled in K-12 in DOE schools – only 0.1% less than the previous year, but around 100,000 fewer students than in the 2019-2020 school year, according to DOE statistics. President Trump is alive and well after bizarre, false online speculation suggested he died Judge awards family nearly $1B for botched birth at hospital he blasted as 'most dangerous place on the planet' NYC spends more per pupil than any large city in the nation, with the next-most generous systems, Chicago and Philadelphia, trailing far behind. Despite the vast sums poured into the nation’s largest school system, student proficiency in English language arts and math continues to lag behind the rest of the state and country. Older students’ results were worse – 23% of city eighth graders met the national standards in math and 29% in reading.In statewide exams given last school year, 52.6% of sixth graders scored proficiency in English Language Arts — up from 45.9% last year, and 47.8% during the 2022-2023 school year, but down from 56.3% in 2021-2022. But comparisons are unreliable because the tests and standards have shifted, and the state has Ray Domanico, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and education expert, blasted the DOE’s spending as “unsustainable.” “The system should be consolidating schools and improving effectiveness and efficiency. The money being wasted could be better used to support families, improve health and other services and make streets safer. All of which would help make the city a viable place to raise children,” he said. “No parent I know would associate that level of spending with the quality of education or even lunch food our kids are getting in NYC schools,” said Yiatin Chu, co-president of PLACE NYC, a parent group that advocates for increased rigor in city classrooms.announced plans to hire more than 3,700 additional teachers Starting in September, state law will require schools to cap class sizes at 20 students in grades K-3, 23 in grades 4-8 and 25 in high school, with at least 60% of classrooms meeting the limits. All classrooms must meet the caps by September 2028. — about $500 million in K-5 alone. Last year, $10 million of the DOE’s overall budget went to teacher recruitment efforts to meet the demands this year, As student enrollment plateaus, the hiring boom will become one of the main drivers of higher per-pupil spending, the CBC’s Research Vice President Ana Champney told The Post. “Hiring teachers in itself isn’t controversial, but there’s no accountability to ensure that the money is being spent on high quality teachers, and that it’s not at the expense of losing a music room, art room, gym, etc. because of the class size law,” said Jean Hahn, a parent in Queens schools.The City of Chicago School District spent $22,606 per student in the 2022-23 school year — the third-most in the country.A DOE spokesperson defended the rising costs: “New York City Public Schools is the largest school district in the nation, and we will always invest heavily in our students, schools, and staff to ensure every child has access to a world-class education. “We remain grateful for support from our partners at the city and state level, as we invest more dollars than ever in our schools and students through class size funding, new funding for students in temporary housing and schools with higher concentrations of students with needs, collective bargaining that supports our school staff, and funding that replaced expiring stimulus dollars, just to name a few. “We all know our students are our future — and any assertion that we should invest less in them would be illogical.”President Trump is alive and well after bizarre, false online speculation suggested he diedTraveler interrogated over mysterious white powder found in her carry-on— but airport security is stunned after learning what it really isMinneapolis school shooter ID'd as trans woman — while disturbing video shows 'kill Donald Trump' scrawled on gun magazinesKourtney Kardashian flaunts her assets in a thong swimsuit after dispelling pregnancy rumorsJessica Simpson seen with ex Eric Johnson at her sister’s Las Vegas concert after sparking reconciliation rumorsSee AllJames MesserschmidtThe City of Chicago School District spent $22,606 per student in the 2022-23 school year -- the third-most in the country.
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