Fair Student Funding – 111xx
To understand the impact of FSF, we really should look at one school at a time. So that’s what we’ll do. I’ve chosen Astoria/Long Island City to start with as neither extremely poor nor extremely affluent, with something of a mix of types of schools.
How to read this stuff? If a school loses $60k, that could be a teacher. But schools will try to cut other things first. The bigger the overall budget, the easier it will be to absorb some cuts without excessing teachers. Don’t assume that a $300k cut in a budget of $3 million means five lost positions. But it would be harder to cut $120k from a $1.2 million budget without losing two teaching lines. I think. I am not so sure.
Conversely, things are ugly. A principal picks up $120k additional? There’s nothing that says that any positions have to be created. The principal would have to be stupid to spend it all on office furniture, but don’t think for a moment that that won’t happen in some school.
And then there’s reality. If a school has space problems, then extra money won’t address the problem. I don’t know these neighborhoods, these schools. Does each school that will receive substantially more money have the physical capacity to bring in additional staff? I don’t think that was part of ‘the formula.’
The chart is below the fold –>
| Name | # | level | Old $$M | FSF $$M | change $M | % change |
| Jacob Blackwell | PS111 | ES | 3.09 | 2.59 | -0.496 | -16% |
| Dutch Kills | PS112 | ES | 3.52 | 3.15 | -0.371 | -11% |
| Henry David Thoreau | PS017 | ES | 3.80 | 4.33 | +0.532 | +14% |
| Peter G Van Alst | PS171 | ES | 4.10 | 4.15 | +0.054 | + 1% |
| PS234 | PS234 | ES | 3.59 | 3.88 | +0.285 | + 8% |
| PS70 | PS70 | ES | 4.69 | 5.33 | +0.641 | +14% |
| PS 150 Queens | PS150 | ES | 6.11 | 7.05 | +0.944 | +15% |
| Maurice A Fitzgerald | PS199 | ES | 4.69 | 5.49 | +0.799 | +17% |
| Steinway | PS84 | ES | 2.45 | 2.23 | -0.216 | – 9% |
| Judge Charles Vallone | PS85 | ES | 2.44 | 2.24 | -0.200 | – 8% |
| William Hallet | PS76 | ES | 4.87 | 4.30 | -0.569 | -12% |
| Henry Gradstein | PS166 | ES | 5.75 | 6.24 | +0.497 | + 9% |
| Mamie Fay | Q122 | ES/MS | 5.84 | 6.52 | +0.685 | +12% |
| Academy for New Americans | Q235 | MS | 1.23 | 1.21 | -0.018 | – 1% |
| Young Women’s Leadership School, Astoria | Q286 | MS | 0.91 | 0.87 | -0.039 | – 4% |
| Horace Greeley | IS10 | MS | 4.75 | 4.79 | +0.038 | + 1% |
| The Steinway | IS141 | MS | 5.17 | 5.54 | +0.368 | + 7% |
| Albert Shanker School for Visual & Performing Arts | Q126 | MS | 4.13 | 4.64 | +0.508 | +12% |
| Oliver W Holmes | IS204 | MS | 5.60 | 5.70 | +0.096 | + 2% |
| Acad. of Finance and Enterprise | Q264 | HS | 1.58 | 1.71 | +0.129 | + 8% |
| HS of Applied Communication | Q267 | HS | 1.68 | 1.89 | +0.213 | +13% |
| Frank Sinatra School of the Arts | Q501 | HS | 3.90 | 3.61 | -0.283 | – 7% |
| Information Technology HS | Q502 | HS | 5.07 | 5.35 | +0.276 | + 5% |
| Middle College HS @ Laguardia CC | Q520 | HS | 2.94 | 2.56 | -0.380 | -13% |
| International HS @ Laguardia CC | Q530 | HS | 3.18 | 2.81 | -0.367 | -12% |
| Newcomers HS | Q555 | HS | 5.48 | 5.77 | +0.291 | + 5% |
| Robert F Wagner SS for Arts & Tech | Q560 | HS | 2.89 | 2.81 | -0.088 | – 3% |
| Academy of American Studies | Q575 | HS | 3.07 | 3.18 | +0.107 | + 3% |
| Qns Voc & Tech | Q600 | HS | 6.56 | 6.84 | +0.284 | + 4% |
| Aviation Career & Tech | Q610 | HS | 11.30 | 10.14 | -1.153 | -10% |
| Wm Cullen Bryant HS | Q445 | HS | 16.12 | 17.34 | +1.217 | + 8% |
| Long Island City HS | Q450 | HS | 16.18 | 17.55 | +1.369 | + 8% |
| Baccalaureate School for Global Education | Q580 | HS | 3.00 | 1.93 | -1.070 | -36% |
These are all the schools listed with LIC zip codes, except for D75. Old funding is the funding under the old formula. FSF funding is the projected funding under Fair Student Funding. If a school went down, the DoE is covering the difference for two years. If a school went up, they get a little more than half the eventual increase this year. The totals and percents make more sense read together.
It is not immediately obvious how these numbers translate into teachers. The total money coming into these neighborhoods will not change much. But there will not be symmetry – at least I suspect there will not be. A school losing $300,000 will excess more than a school gaining $300,000 will hire. I think. And I am nervous.
My first FSF post was here.
Source: NYCDoE’s FSF calculation page. You can check any school there.
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