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drpvn t1_ixrepa9 wrote

Reply to comment by Lucid108 in What to Know Now That the N.Y.P.D. Is on Amazon’s Neighborhood Watch App by k1lk1

If you want to see near-constant increases, look at the education budget. It is almost 40% of the entire budget.

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Lucid108 t1_ixrhltt wrote

Education is among the most consistently underfunded social services. Teachers are certainly not nearly as well-paid/well-compensated as cops and they serve a variety of critically necessary roles.

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drpvn t1_ixrhqjw wrote

The education budget is $38 billion this year. It’s not underfunded.

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Lucid108 t1_ixriyu2 wrote

It is, however, being gutted.

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drpvn t1_ixrj9ob wrote

That’s a small amount in the context of the massive DOE budget.

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Grass8989 t1_ixrkjzo wrote

$300 million out of a $38 billion budget isn’t it being “gutted”, especially when enrollment has been pretty significantly declining.

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