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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Expense Budget Highlights

Budgetary Priorities: Providing Core Services

• setting aside $80.0 million of the Board’s budget to install private management of failing public schools.

• an additional $40.8 million for the cost of providing transportation to general and special education students. '

funding of $31.5 million over two years for customized classroom libraries in all 21,000 K-8 classrooms.

an additional $31.4 million for fringe benefit costs.

an additional $25.4 million for the cost of energy and leases. // funding of $25.0 million for Project Science, an intensive weekend and after-school program designed to provide math and science instruction for 45,300 students.

' an additional $23.4 million to expand summer school by 50,000 more students for a total of 370,000.

an additional $19.5 million for charter school enrollment growth.

funding of $19.1 million to hire almost 500 specially trained teachers for newly designated In-School Suspension classrooms, where disruptive students will receive additional support and instruction.

an additional $10.5 million to allow for the hiring of 800 new school safety officers.

an additional $10.5 million for the transportation and instruction of special education Pre-Kindergartcn students.

funding of $8.9 million for Project English, an intensive weekend and after-school program designed to help 38,600 bilingual education students ^ain English proficiency. n /> i h an additional $4.9 million for the cost of school-age special education students attending specialized 1 schools.

I Streamlining

Despite pressure to make reductions in an area that represents 31.1 percent of the City’s budget, the Board of Education has been exempted from any reduction target for 2002. This continues an exemption that started in October 1996, when Additional reduction targets were issued to other agencies in order to maintain a balanced budget condition. / ' /'

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