New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city needs more money from the state.
Mayor Eric Adams asked state lawmakers for more money during a hearing on Wednesday.It was Tin Cup Day in Albany on Wednesday - the one day a year that mayors across New York go up to the state Capitol and jangle their "tin cups," pleading the state for more money in an annual local government budget hearing.
But state lawmakers did go relatively easy on Adams, mostly agreeing with a majority of his proposed fixes to Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal. Adams won’t directly support or oppose this proposal to lift the charter school cap, instead focusing on the fiscal impact, which he says will cost the city around $1 billion."It’s something that I adamantly oppose, the lifting of that cap and it's good to hear that you kind of oppose it also," Senator John Liu said.
"I've gone into district schools that have been wonderful. I've gone into charter schools that have been wonderful," Adams said. "So while I look at those who are educating our children, they see the scale of what works. They have to figure out what how that's done in the law." Hochul is also proposing that the city, state, and federal governments split the costs evenly when it comes to housing asylum seekers.
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