His emotional arithmetic is clear-cut, elementary-school-level division.
This is a continuation of a policy in the Commack school district, where in 2004 12 teachers were cut, the elementary summer school program was eliminated and class size was increased with an 8.9percentt budget increase.
The proposed cut to elementary after-school programs would leave far too many of our city's families scrambling to find care for their children when school is not in session.
Those cuts include reductions to Head Start that would remove 218,000 children from the program and cuts to elementary education that would hit 2,400 schools and nearly one million students.
State governments are leading the way with cuts in elementary and secondary education.
Later today, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) -- the second largest school system in the nation -- is set to revisit a plan that includes devastating cuts to elementary arts education programs.
BLP: Binary linear programming; cMCS: Constrained minimal cut set; EM: Elementary modes; EMA: Elementary mode analysis; MCS: Minimal cut set.
The 50 grade-school children were in the middle of band practice, a dinosaur of an event in the New York City school system, where many band programs disappeared during decades of budget cuts and where elementary school bands were always rare.
As for how the cash-strapped school system will fund the raises -- worth $30 million -- Brizard told the Sun-Times he will "go back to my team and order them to find the cuts to pay elementary teachers for the 90 minutes".
