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Discussion on funding allocation for class size reduction
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Emma Vadehra, Deputy Chancellor of Operations and Finance, provides details on the funding allocation for class size reduction. She explains the sources of funding, including city and state contributions, and the timeline for releasing school-specific funding information.
- The executive budget includes a $150 million down payment from the city
- An additional $241 million in Contracts for Excellence funding from the state will be used for class size reduction
- The total funding for 750 schools next year is expected to be over $400 million
- School-specific funding information will be released with initial school budgets at the end of the month
- Schools have already been informed about the number of additional teachers or assistant principals they will receive
Emma Vadehra
1:57:03
Sure.
1:57:03
Thank you very much.
1:57:04
So I I did touch on this a bit earlier, but the executive budget came out before the state enacted budget came out.
1:57:11
So we were working with OMB to ensure we could reflect state funding as a part of our class size planning.
1:57:18
So the executive budget included a down payment from the city of 150,000,000.
1:57:24
From the state, we have an additional 241,000,000 in contracts for excellence funding that we plan to use for class size, and then we do expect there to be a bit of an additional need after that and are working with OMB on that.
1:57:37
So a bit over 400,000,000 for just funding those 750 schools for next year.
1:57:43
There's separately money for teacher recruitment that is reflected in the executive budget to put towards teacher pipelines and bringing on additional teachers.
Shekar Krishnan
1:57:51
And when's that funding?
1:57:53
When will you believe the amount of funding per school?
Emma Vadehra
1:57:55
Yeah.
1:57:56
Sorry.
1:57:56
So the funding per school will come out when initial school budgets come out, so around the end of this month on the regular cycle.
1:58:04
The reason but we we intentionally preannounced that.
1:58:09
Every school heard back when we announced in early April that that we were supporting schools to hire 3,700 additional teachers.
1:58:17
Every school was told individually this is how many additional teachers or in some cases assistant principals you are getting.
1:58:24
So you should start planning on that.
1:58:26
You can look towards hiring for that.
1:58:28
You can post for those positions.
1:58:30
All of that started then.
1:58:31
The funding will come towards the end of year.
Shekar Krishnan
1:58:33
Got it.
1:58:33
Okay.
1:58:33
And for the schools that their applications get rejected for additional funding, you'll work with them going forward to restructure those applications?
1:58:42
I know in the past, Emma, both you and I worked together on schools where we've had funding issues and applications that were rejected, I appreciate all your work on that too.
1:58:52
We got it to a good place.
1:58:53
So just curious if that kind of work will be happening with those schools too.
Emma Vadehra
1:58:57
Yes.
1:58:57
So I think as we look towards next year, we'll be looking at those schools as well as schools that didn't choose to apply to figure out how we can support them to improve compliance.
1:59:08
The chancellor touched on this earlier, but in some cases some of those applications were focused on needs that were not class size compliance, and so wanna work with them to ensure that's what we're funding through this dedicated funding stream for them and others.