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Story summary
- NYC officials are weighing school closures and cuts as spending reaches $44,000 per student and enrollment is expected to drop to 721,251 by 2034-35, a loss of 153,000.
- The $35.3 billion budget includes $13 billion for salaries, $8.1 billion for pensions and $3.5 billion for charter payments serving 150,500 students that outpace nearby public schools.
- Due-process costs for special-education cases rose from $500 million in 2019 to $1.5 billion, prompting criticism of the class-size reduction law.
