Republicans fume at the mere existence of anyone different than them

They complained that he violated pool dress code by jumping into a pool with his suit on, to start the season off. What the fuck kind of complaint is that, honestly. Unless hoards of children start jumping in with full business attire, I think we'll all be fine.

has he been spotted riding a bicycle already? That was among the most ridiculous of the Obama "scandals".

But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see

It’s bloated because it’s not “their kids.”

The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.

Same for our healthcare.

Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.

The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.

If you need money to compensate for the tax breaks for billionaires and their companies and money to fund weapons and wars for Israel, you gotta save somewhere, duh!

The private schools the rich gather are prolly are

Sufficient funding and wasteful spending are two separate categories. Because yes every school could use a ton of more funding. But I do feel that a lot of schools have become very top heavy in administrative personnel and a bit light were the actual teaching happens.

But when government does stuff, that's socialism. And the news tells me that is scary.

He lucked out that a bit of creative accounting “saved” the city a couple of billion this year, but that’s a one-time deal. Next year he’ll actually have to put the work in.

School budget is bloated but the genocide military fund could use another trillion or two.

This but with right-wing ideology as a whole

That shit rag is necessary so nobody forgets and puts the guard down against the forces of evil trying to make everything foul.

But if we got rid of the NY post, whose going to write articles blaming the immigrants?

That's the thing though. Less education and more police is exactly what these people want. They don't want well-educated poor people. Because well-educated poor people don't vote the way they want them to. They know their rights and they have the intelligence to make informed decisions. And this is terrifying to the elite class in our society. Educated peasants are the most dangerous thing to a feudal land owning group.

And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase.

Isn’t inflation currently like 4.1%? So this is not even a budgetary increase commensurate with inflation? Clowns.

The only payment teachers should need is the joy and satisfaction they get from helping children

We should cut all the school budgets and give the money to people that truly deserve it, politicians, political advisors, and the lawyers working hard to keep these hard working patriotic pedophiles out of prison

Most people don't take the Post seriously

It’s the New York Post; a Murdoch-owned rag barely worth lining your pet’s litter bin with - let alone taking seriously.

He literally is...

if you are an ultra wealthy oligarch that has a malignant cancer of greed.

NYPost is written for leaded gasoline survivors.

It's a replay

It makes you articulate, and it builds critical thinking.

this person has never been to a public school

also knowledge ≠ intelligence

Thanks for these. The New York State law that the city just comply with further contextualizes things.

• Strong teacher union making sure class sizes stay reasonable
• Politicians working to fund the public school systems

What’s not to like?

It is bad. But only because it's been so chronically underfunded and dismantled by decades of abuse.

Charter/Private schools.

At least they are "over spending" on education tho

Look, he just got out of the pool, there's no pleasing you people

For those uninformed in the partake of white powdery stuff, could you explain said phenomenon

Trillionaire would be $1.000.000.000.000, wouldn't it?

$1.000.000.000.000.000.000 would be quintillionaire?

That's the problem! Dumb Wokedani isn't giving money to trillionaires to build data centers! Argh

Yeah seriously. I wonder what the article itself has to say about it. Probably nothing. Or just throwing absolute numbers around, like Joe Sixpack could never afford.

In a budget for 8½ million people, 700M is not much.