The shift to the Kazakh language affected classroom instruction, textbooks, newspapers, and such media as television and cinema, all of which contribute to public education.
Mr. Bloomberg said he would make sure that cuts to education would not affect classrooms.
But Bloomberg officials say that such cuts, while difficult, would not affect classrooms.
Although they will not force layoffs or broadly affect classrooms, they are expected to curtail after-school programs.
B1 The Bloomberg administration is considering a list of potential education cuts that would directly affect classrooms by laying off hundreds of teachers' aides, city officials said.
Assemblyman Steven Sanders, the chairman of the Assembly's Education Committee, said that he and the Assembly speaker, Sheldon S. Silver, had reached an agreement with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to restore all cuts affecting classrooms.
For now, however, district officials on Long Island and in Westchester said they hoped for the best, even as they prepared for the worst, and were striving to boost revenues and cut costs without resorting to measures that would drastically affect classrooms.
As sequestration takes hold, it's becoming increasingly clear that the steep budget cuts are affecting classrooms.
While it's too soon to tell how Duncan's policies affect classrooms, it's universally agreed that he has raised education's profile and dramatically expanded the power of the Education Department under Obama.
But he has also ordered cuts in the education budget that will affect classroom teaching.
