Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
Q&A
Council member inquires about class size funding application process
6:46:22
ยท
82 sec
Council Member Rita Joseph asks about the Department of Education's recent process for principals to apply for class size reduction funding. Dale Kelly, representing the Council of School Supervising Administrators, responds with details about the application process and its implementation.
- Over 800 principals and their teams applied for additional class size funding
- The DOE, CSA, and UFT are reviewing applications
- Decisions on funding are expected by the end of the month
Rita Joseph
6:46:22
Thank you.
6:46:22
Does the DOE recently designed a process which only principals can apply for these class size funding?
6:46:28
The information hold on.
6:46:30
The information New York City Public School put out said the announcement would be made so as to which school would be awarded class size reduction funding.
6:46:36
Have you heard from principals about this process, and what's their thought on this approach?
Dale Kelly
6:46:40
We thought it was a very good approach.
6:46:42
This sort of coalition of the willing approach that we took.
6:46:45
Unfortunately, last fiscal year, many or this fiscal year, I should say, many schools that did not have the wherewithal to reduce class sizes were given class size reduction money.
6:46:57
So we really wanna take a targeted approach for fiscal year twenty six that those schools who had the space to actually help move the needle toward meeting in 60% threshold were given the funds to do so.
6:47:10
To that end, every principal in conjunction with their school leadership teams and and constituents had an opportunity to apply for additional class size funding.
6:47:20
On the chancellor shared that over 800 of our school principals and their teams took the opportunity to do so, the DOE in conjunction with CSA and UFT are in the process of now looking through all of those applications.
6:47:32
We are hoping to make a decision and determination on funding the vast majority of those schools, and we're hoping that that can happen hopefully by the close of this month.