Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. had been threatening to delay opening schools if the city did not come through with the $50 million, which he said was necessary to provide the minimum staffing needed for the basic safety of the district's 136,000 students.
Joy Wingfield, a pharmacy law and ethics expert who has trained the last two Boots superintendents - the pharmacists in charge of patient safety - agrees that regulation around pharmacy is inadequate and minimum staffing levels need to be defined.
The WISN method is well suited to determine the minimum staffing mix needed to deliver expected services at a given facility.
The RCN said the findings illustrated the need for minimum staffing levels to be set - echoing a call made by Unison last week.
Recognizing that the requirements were four years old and set with limited sector information, the MOHSW HR Unit, with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) support, conducted a workforce optimization study to review minimum staffing requirements and calculate optimal workforce needs.
Another plan to lower minimum staffing requirements, so that fewer firefighters would be needed on some engines, has been postponed at the request of the fire union.
The main human resource management roles at the district level were to identify staff requirements and their training needs and to ensure that health facilities had the minimum staffing requirements.
No, it did what it was tasked to do and minimum staffing levels were explicitly excluded from its brief, but much more is needed to consistently ensure safe nurse staffing levels in the NHS.
Without sufficient staff (there are no minimum staffing levels for care homes), these problems will only get worse, as more residents need individual support for eating and two care workers for toileting, washing, dressing and getting out of bed.
And it called for minimum staffing levels to ensure standards improved, arguing one nurse for every seven patients was needed.
