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This article discusses the problems with the proposed five-year capital plan for the New York City Department of Education (DOE), including the lack of funding for replacement seats, no new funding for class size reduction, backloading of projects, and absence of seat need estimates.
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Issues with new five year capital plan 2020-2024 Leonie Haimson Class Size Matters www.classsizematters.org 1.15. 18
Problems with new five-year plan • No funding for replacement seats – even though SCA is removing TCUs, replacing annexes and losing leases every year • No new funding in the category called class size reduction • Very backloaded so that 50,000 of 57,000 seats in the plan will not be completed until 2024 or later • DOE provides NO estimate for the need for new seats – for first time in a proposed capital plan since 2011
*DOE has provided no estimate of seats need in proposed 2020-2024 Capital Plan