A bipartisan band of City Council members is demanding Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter create an optional summer school program for New York City kids whose academic lives have been upended by pandemic-related school closures.
“We are concerned that the money the [Department of Education] receives from the three subsequent federal stimulus bills will be spent frivolously and nonsensically, rather than helping students return to a more optimal pace of learning,” reads a March 11 letter signed by Republicans Joe Borelli, Eric Ulrich and Steven Matteo, and Democrats Robert Holden, Inez Barron, Chaim Deutsch and Alicka Ampry-Samuel. “Total federal stimulus from 2021 and 2022 for K-12 adds up to $193 billion. Let’s not waste our share.”
The proposal calls for the DOE to institute a one-to-two-month optional half-day summer program to make up for shortfalls, particularly with math and reading.
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That’s what happens when you let yourself be fooled by a hoax virus.