“From time to time, friends disagree,” Adams says in response to lawsuit over move to cut $550 million in budget for city’s schools over migrant crisis
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s teachers union is suing to block planned cuts to the city’s public schools, warning that steep budget reductions proposed by Mayor Eric Adams would weaken key education initiatives and violate state law.
For months, Adams has argued that slashing city spending — including a $550 million cut in education funding — is necessary to offset the rising costs of New York’s migrant crisis. But in a lawsuit filed in state court on Thursday, the United Federation of Teachers accused the mayor of exaggerating the city’s fiscal woes in order to push through a “blunt austerity measure” that is both illegal and unnecessary.
The lawsuit rests on a state law that prevents New York City from reducing school spending unless overall revenues decline. Because the city
