The nation’s largest school system will keep schools’ budgets intact next year despite declining enrollment but has not yet decided on midyear budget cuts.
Details: New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels told principals in an email Sunday that the city will not claw back funding from schools with fewer students than anticipated for the 2026-27 school year. Schools are set to receive their budgets for the fiscal year that starts July 1 next week.
But he confirmed during a City Council executive budget hearing Monday that the city has not made any decisions with respect to the midyear adjustment it will make to school budgets when asked by Council member Lincoln Restler