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I heard the DOE wasted 500 million a few years ago on a program that was scrapped but I can't find the source.
Bloomberg before him put in place performance requirements for schools. Those that failed were given multiple chances to fix their problems and if they didn't they would be closed and the entire staff re-assigned. De Blasio came in and decided, hey these schools are fine lets give them more money, and he poured $773 million into it.
The result? Blasi-D'Oh had to close the schools anyways because they stayed terrible.
That’s why layoffs are stupid. If PD laid off 1000 cops, they’d be all the cheapest rookies. It would leave a major hole in patrol services. They should offer a buyout for higher ups to retire instead. Save 2, sometimes even 3 times the amount per body.
The reason that the city government is in current state is because of poor planning and excessive over spending. The city might had a great surplus at once, but that shouldn’t just go out and keep on spending, especially the NYC Thrive program, nearly $1B gone and doesn’t even know where/how to track it. Now tens of thousands families life are in jeopardy just because the city need to balance its budget. This is mess up.
I feel like any individual with a sense of money would know how to use their money wisely.
exactly. deblasio is inept and couldn't balance a budget in a good economy and let his wife do who knows what will a billion dollars.
Bloomberg before him put in place performance requirements for schools. Those that failed were given multiple chances to fix their problems and if they didn't they would be closed and the entire staff re-assigned. De Blasio came in and decided, hey these schools are fine lets give them more money, and he poured $773 million into it.
The result? Blasi-D'Oh had to close the schools anyways because they stayed terrible.
yup. and closed charter schools. and he wants to change the requirements for specialized high schools to put more black kids in them merit be damned.
at first he claimed it was to get more poor kids in but then it turned out the poorest kids in the city (poor asians) actually were massively over represented in the specialized schools.
I stated this in the past. If it was up to me, I would cut every government employee salary by 20%. Let’s start with DeBlasio and Carranza salary. Also, no more OT
Firing all of those people will save $1,000,000,000? Isn’t $1BN the same amount of money that Chirlane McCray is suspected to have stolen from the Thrive NYC Program? Talk about bad money management!
I wonder what kind of rotten things they will do with selecting the people to be fired. The selection process might help them “diversity” more, or something crummy like that to help all the criminals and hurt any decent people.
But also I heard that the $1,000,000,000 stolen is already under private investigation by the Defund DeBlasio Movement. I hope they catch whoever took all of that money.
It’s bad to see such huge layoffs in a big American city all due to such terrible budgeting errors.
I didn't hear that DeBlasio is under investigation for that but i hope they find something! The city council has to approve the Mayors budget so its also on them that they let him pass the ThriveNYC programs. Let not give them a pass too.
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