Hours after the NYC DOE notified school principals and superintendents on Friday that they would lose access to the department’s online budgeting application, the mayor's office suddenly reversed course.
Hours after suspending principals’ ability to use the NYC Department of Education online tool for hiring staff and managing school budgets, the mayor's office changed course.Hours after suspending principals’ ability to use the NYC Department of Education online tool for hiring staff and managing school budgets, the mayor's office changed course.At 12:22 p.m.
to the department’s online budgeting application known as Galaxy, which allows principals to hire staff, purchase supplies and manage their school budgets.against the education department that prevents it from implementing planned cuts to school budgets – estimated by the city comptroller to be over $370 million – in response to a lawsuit brought by a group of parents and teachers who claim the way the cuts were voted into the city’s budget violated state law.
Vadehra’s message to school administrators stated that the city’s legal counsel had advised that access to the budget tool be cut off, in order to abide by the judge’s order. Opponents, including the plaintiffs’ attorney in the lawsuit, disagreed with that interpretation. One city principal, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Gothamist that the lack of access to the Galaxy application would create “huge issues” for principals who are currently busy planning for the coming school year.But by 9:51 p.m. that same day – last night – the Adams administration had reversed course.
BREAKING: A spokesperson for Mayor Adams now tells me the DOE’s online budgeting application will be back up and running for school principals tomorrow
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