{"id":72615,"date":"2025-12-16T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:07:07","slug":"nyc-must-spend-700-million-to-cut-class-sizes-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72615\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Must Spend $700 Million to Cut Class Sizes, Watchdog Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/5264Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">New York City<\/a> will need about $700 million more to comply with a state law to reduce school class sizes, the city\u2019s Independent Budget Office said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The non-partisan budget watchdog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibo.nyc.gov\/assets\/ibo\/downloads\/pdf\/education\/2025\/2025-december-a-slow-start-limited-progress-in-first-years-towards-class-size-compliance.pdf\" title=\"link to report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">estimated<\/a> New York will have to hire additional 6,900 teachers by the 2027-2028 school year and annually thereafter to comply with a 2022 state law that placed grade-specific limits on traditional public-school class sizes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City will need about $700 million more to comply with a state law to reduce school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3339,5869,67,1070,2710,232,9942,9,24,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-72615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-education","tag-food","tag-law","tag-lifestyle","tag-megacity","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}