Stuyvesant High Hit With $1M Budget Cut
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A nearly $1 million cut at the city’s most elite high school, Stuyvesant, in Lower Manhattan, is among the worst-case-scenario budget pictures Schools Chancellor Joel Klein presented to public school principals last night.
Other elite schools also learned they would receive large cuts under the scenario, including the Bronx High School of Science, which is slated to lose $825,448, and Staten Island Technical, which would lose $355,860.
Stuyvesant would lose $955,135.
Mr. Klein is saying that these budget cuts could be avoided if Albany loosened restrictions on a pot of state money intended for poor-performing and struggling schools, but Governor Paterson is showing resistance.
So is a coalition including the teachers union, principals union, and parent groups, who have organized a round of protests asking Mayor Bloomberg to send more city funds to public schools.
The latest protest is a push to make Friday “Red and Black Day” at the city high schools. Students are asked to dress in red and black to show the contrast between cuts (“in the red”) happening even though the city has a surplus (“in the black”).
