The powerful New York City teachers union is suing Democrat Mayor Eric Adams over deep budget cuts as the city struggles to find money to accommodate the influx of illegal aliens who have swarmed the Big Apple.
Adams has been sounding the alarm for months over the migrant crisis and has been forced to make deep budget cuts affecting essential services to offset the costs for the new arrivals, including chopping nearly $550 million for education funding which the union is going to court over.
Claiming that Hizzoner would be violating a state law that bars cuts in education spending unless there is a decline in overall revenue, the United Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit in state court on Thursday accusing the mayor of exaggerating the city’s fiscal woes to justify the “draconian cuts” that it calls unnecessary and illegal.
Why sue the city to stop the budget cuts? According to the Independent Budget Office, the city will end the fiscal year in June with a budget surplus of $3.6 billion. https://t.co/IkvnCkW4yB
— UFT (@UFT) December 22, 2023
“The administration can’t go around touting the tourism recovery and the return of the city’s pre-pandemic jobs, and then create a fiscal crisis and cut education because of its own mismanagement of the asylum seeker problem. Our schools and our families deserve better,” United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement posted to the union’s website announcing the lawsuit.
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“This is going to become difficult and ugly,” Mulgrew said at a Thursday news conference. “We have never had an administration try to cut their schools when they have historic reserves and their revenues are all up.”
Calling the Adams administration’s blaming of the onslaught of asylum seekers “a false narrative,” the lawsuit states that “the law does not permit school funding to be used as a political bargaining chip; and cutting essential services to the City’s schools is not a substitute for the mayoral leadership and advocacy on behalf of New Yorkers needed to obtain federal and state support,” according to the UFT.
Why are we suing the city to stop the cuts to education? Because we have little confidence that the @NYCMayor and his administration will be visited by any ghosts this holiday weekend. pic.twitter.com/2eMPXrpvTM
— UFT (@UFT) December 21, 2023
“From time to time, friends disagree,” Mayor Adams said during a Thursday press conference. “Sometimes it ends up in a boardroom and sometimes it ends up in a courtroom.”
The lawsuit is just the latest of the embattled mayor’s problems as his management of the crime-ridden metropolis has come under fire almost since the day that he was sworn in to replace Bill de Blasio, possibly the most destructive leader to ever occupy City Hall.
Adams has run afoul of the Biden regime over his criticism of President Joe Biden’s disastrous immigration policies that have flooded his city with illegals, a crisis that he said was destroying Gotham as the buses continue to arrive with their human cargo, outstripping the ability to house and feed them.
“The Mayor’s recent actions,” the lawsuit states, “are driven more by a ‘crisis’ of budget management, leadership and problem solving, as opposed to an influx of migrants to New York.”
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