A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
Report regarding the collection, retention, and disclosure of identifying information by such agency and any contractors or subcontractors utilized by such agency
New York City by the Numbers: In fall 2019, the New York City Department of Education capped most school suspensions at 20 days; IBO examines the potential impacts of the policy change.
The New York City Independent Budget Office is pleased to announce that Louisa Chafee has been appointed director of the agency. Chafee brings more than two decades of leadership experience in both government and the non-profit sector to IBO.
FOCUS ON THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET: The Mayor's budget includes millions of dollars in new funding to cover the cost of an annuity fund for school staff that guarantees 8.25 percent returns a year.
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: The Mayor’s savings plan for next year includes nearly $475 million in cuts to the education department—68 percent of the reductions target funding for general education classrooms.
With thousands of asylum seekers arriving in New York City, an IBO report tracks the distribution of $26.7 million in Project Open Arms education funds and looks at NYC Schools language acquisition programs for children.
IBO presents its Fiscal Outlook Report for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 containing our latest economic forecast, tax revenue projections and spending estimates.
In this report, IBO explores the potential roadblocks to the Trust’s success, and its benefits and risks, as well as other operational reforms contained in NYCHA’s greater reform plan, A Blueprint for Change.
The IBO released an analysis of City payments to nonprofit cultural organizations that may be the first such accounting of municipal investment in the cultural sector. The report details $727 million in payments made from the Expense Budget in Fiscal Year 2022.
In SY 2014-15 the NYC DOE centralized its kindergarten admissions process to make it more equitable. IBO analyzes how the centralized process works and how its outcomes compare for students of different demographics.
FOCUS ON THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET: Seven years after Hurricane Sandy swamped the city’s coastal neighborhoods, the programs aimed at restoring damaged homes and apartment buildings linger on. More money has been added to the city’s budget to finish the job.
A growing number of New York City schools has qualified for federal Title I-A funding in recent years. But the city is getting less money than it did years ago even as federal allocations have grown nationwide. We explain the fiscal and demographic reasons why.
As part of our recent report on the cost of subway disruptions to riders and the city, which IBO produced at the request of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, we needed to estimate how much time subway commuters lose to delays.
To find out how many rent stabilized apartments are vacant, NYCIBO released its study of NYSHCR data from 2017-2022. On average, less than five percent of rent stabilized apartments were vacant, and of those, the majority were rented within a year.
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: The Covid-19 pandemic has added to the burdens of the city’s fiscally and physically troubled public housing. Does the Mayor’s Executive Budget provide help?
FISCAL HISTORY: We’ve updated our tables on New York City revenue, spending, and full-time staffing to include fiscal year 2020. The charts cover four decades of the city’s fiscal history.
The city's fiscal outlook for 2011 and beyond may be less fraught than previously thought. The IBO has concentrated on updating its economic and tax revenue forecasts.
In this report, IBO examines NYC Department of Education human resources data for public school teachers for school years 2000-2001 through 2011-2012. Over this 12 year period the report looks
at data on teachers' age, gender, self-reported race or ethnicity, and experience working in the city's public schools.
Bloomberg proposed a 50-cent increase in the city's tax on cigarettes. The Mayor argued that raising the price of cigarettes, by increasing taxes, has proven to be a very effective method of
reducing smoking.
In 2009 the state law granting the Mayor control of the New York City public school system was renewed. That renewal included a requirement that the New York City
Independent Budget Office "enhance official and public understanding" of educational matters of the school system. The law also requires the Chancellor of the school system to provide IBO with the
data that they deem nevessary to conduct their analyses.
IBO has examined Internal Revenue Service tax filer county to county migration data to track NYC in-migration and out-migration from 1989-2007 as well as moves within the city over that period.
While what consitutes a progressive budget is fundamentally a subjective matter, examining the mayor's budget themes of fiscal responsibility and budget honesty fall more directly within IBO's role.
An annual rite of spring in NYC has been the often contentious debate over the setting of the rate customers will pay for the city's water and sewer system in the coming fiscal year. Since 1995 the rate has increased
every year, some years by as much as 10 percent or more. The de Blasio Administration recently made its first water rate proposal calling for an increase of 3.35 percent.
IBO produced a detailed explanation of its projections for future costs associated with asylum seekers, and how they differ from the projections in the 2024 November Plan.
IBO's comparison of enrollment data for this school year with last school year for kindergarten through eighth grade finds that average class sizes are already on the rise.
Press release for the New York City Independent Budget Office's report "In Custody: Length of Stay and Population Demographics at NYC Jails, 2014–2023."
Medicaid enrollment and claims in New York City have grown over the course of the course of pandemic, but the program’s extra costs have fallen on the federal government. IBO examines recent Medicaid trends and what the future might hold for the program & the city’s coffers.
In addition to last summer’s threat of potential layoffs, the Mayor has implemented an attrition program, with agencies allowed to replace only one out of every three departing full-time employees. How far has headcount fallen and which agencies have seen the biggest staffing declines?
What are the similarities and differences among these three types of senior programs and do average program and personnel costs differ? We compared using data from the Department for the Aging, which contracts with providers to operate the senior programs.
In recent years the offices of the city's five District Attorneys have garnered millions of dollars through state and federal asset forfeiture laws. Although there are certain requirements on how these funds are held and spent, the District Attorneys retain considerable discretion over the use of these dollars.
This Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the decreased revenue from City athletic facilities after a fee increase was implemented for their use. Included are data and analyses of the spending trends following the fee increase in various City athletic facilities.
FOCUS ON THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET: The de Blasio Administration has emphasized education and job training as well as other supports for cash assistance recipients, which has led to an increase in the public assistance caseload as individuals remain on the roll for longer periods of time to participate in enhanced programs. But the increase in the caseload now seems to have leveled off.
ACS's contracts with nonprofit agencies to provide foster care services to children who cannot remain safely in their homes. The city is in the process of rebidding those contracts, with new ones set to begin next fiscal year. In this brief, IBO explores the changes expected under the new contracts.
As the pandemic swept the city and lead to school closures, job losses, and quarantine, food insecurity grew. New York City spending for emergency food grew too.
IBO updated the Fiscal History section of its website with Fiscal Year 2021 data on staffing and spending. Explore citywide numbers or drill down to the agency, as well as debt service, and revenues.
With this publication, the IBO examines ways that the city could save money or raise revenue, and impartially analyze the pros and cons of each option. An option's inclusion in the volume does not
imply a recommendation, nor does the omission of an idea mean IBO does not consider it viable.
With state policymakers now considering whether to allow companies to drill for natural gas in the Catskill/Delaware watershed, many environmentalists and other New Yorkers are concerned about
potential contamination of the water from chemicals used in drilling.
The IBO has modeled five scenarios and how each would alter the amount of federal income taxes paid by New Yorkers in 2013. For each of the five possible outcomes considered, IBO estimates how much in income
taxes would flow from the city to the federal treasury as well as how the amounts owed by New Yorkers at various income levels are affected.
After examining the information during fiscal year 2008, IBO presents its economic outlook for the year 2009, claiming that there will be a decease in jobs and an increase in the budget gap.
Based on IBO's tax and spending projections under the Mayor's November 2012 Financial Plan, the city faces a budget shortfall of $811 million in the upcoming fiscal year, a relatively modest
1.6 percent of out forecast for city-generated revenues. IBO's projected shortfall for the following year, fiscal year 2015, is $1.7 billion, 3.1 percent of expected city-generated revenues.
The legislature in Albany is currently considering a bill that would allow certain public emploees to retire at age 55 rather than 62 without a loss in pension benefits. IBO estimates that the bill would
increase the city's pension and fringe benefit costs by $68.1 million in the first year after accounting for savings from hiring entry-level replacements.
Over the past several months the Department of City Planning has outlined its proposed East Midtown rezoning intiative in a series of public reports and presentations.
In December 1994, just prior to the implementation of welfare reform initiatives, nearly 80 percent of New York City's food stamp recipients also received public assistance. For the most part, New York's
Food Stamp program was an extension of public assistance, with the vast majority of recipients enrolling in both programs at the same time.
To assess whether elementary grade students in charter schools leave their schools any more frequently than students in traditional public schools, IBO examined a cohort of students who
entered kindergarten in September 2008 and followed them through third grade. This involved tracking data on 3,043 students in 53 charter schools and 7,208 students in 116 traditional public
schools nearest to each charter.
This report looks at how the resources, broadly defined, of New York's households and businesses were taxed by state and local governments, and at how those revenues
were distributed, both geographically and among major government functions.
The Bloomberg Administration is now proposing a major rezoning of East Midtown. Concerned that his new initiative would compete with Hudson Yards and slow the revnue growth neededto make
Hudson Yards self-supporting, Council Member Daniel Garodnick asked IBO to review city spending to date on the plan and to consider the short-term outlook for revenues at Hudson Yards.
The Mayor's approach to balancing the city's budget in 2012 lies heavily on the expenditure side of the city's ledger and underscores a message of fiscal austerity.
This report presents the IBO's new economic forecast and tax revenue projections along with their review and adjustments of the Mayor's spending plans under
the Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 2013 and Financial Plan through 2016.
Recent legislation in Albany, including changes in the budget adopted last month and set to go into effect in April 2013, have been aimed at improving the ability of the city and state
to get reimbursements for Early Intervention services. IBO has examined claims data from 2002 through 2010 and considered the likelihood these legislative efforts will
reduce the program's reliance on city funds.
The reports have beomce one of the primary means for rating and reporting on the effectiveness of each of the city's schools. Education department administrators
use the reports for making decisions about which schools and principals to reward and conversely, determining which schools to close or principals to remove.
The city's Department of Education typically assesses progress in raising proficiency rates by comparing scores on the state English Language Arts and amath tests of this year's third through eighth
graders with last year's. The IBO sought to identify any shifts in the achievement gap between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds in the cohort they examined.
We often get questions about NYPD overtime spending. So here's an update: In a 2-week period roughly since antiracism protests began, NYC spent $115 million on police overtime, over 4X spent in same period last year.
We've updated portions of our web-based facts and figures on the city's schools to present information from the 2015-2016 school year. The updated indicators provide information ranging from student birthplaces and most common languages spoken at home to enrollment trends and student demographics at traditional public and charter schools. The update also includes new data on absence rates and performance on New York State and Regents exams.
New information about students taking advanced placement exams and courses in the city's public high schools as well as the availability of art and science classes in high schools.
We've updated portions of our web-based facts and figures on the city's schools to present information from the 2015-2016 school year. The updated indicators provide information ranging from student birthplaces and most common languages spoken at home to enrollment trends and student demographics at traditional public and charter schools. The update also includes new data on absence rates and performance on New York State and Regents exams.
We've updated portions of our web-based facts and figures on the city's schools to present information from the 2015-2016 school year. The updated indicators provide information ranging from student birthplaces and most common languages spoken at home to enrollment trends and student demographics at traditional public and charter schools. The update also includes new data on absence rates and performance on New York State and Regents exams.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) report shows the New York City public school indicators on demographics, resources, and outcomes. This document includes a background on public schools and data on these schools related to diversity and performance.
We've updated portions of our web-based facts and figures on the city's schools to present information from the 2015-2016 school year. The updated indicators provide information ranging from student birthplaces and most common languages spoken at home to enrollment trends and student demographics at traditional public and charter schools. The update also includes new data on absence rates and performance on New York State and Regents exams.
We've updated portions of our web-based facts and figures on the city's schools to present information from the 2015-2016 school year. The updated indicators provide information ranging from student birthplaces and most common languages spoken at home to enrollment trends and student demographics at traditional public and charter schools. The update also includes new data on absence rates and performance on New York State and Regents exams.
We've updated portions of our web-based facts and figures on the city's schools to present information from the 2015-2016 school year. The updated indicators provide information ranging from student birthplaces and most common languages spoken at home to enrollment trends and student demographics at traditional public and charter schools. The update also includes new data on absence rates and performance on New York State and Regents exams.
FOCUS ON THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET: Foundation Aid, the state's primary aid to New York's public schools, is once again falling short of expectations under the Governor's budget compared with amounts set under a 2007 legislative agreement to settle the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit
In June 2019, the number of city residents receiving cash assistance hit a 56-year low. We have tracked the rise and fall of cash assistance recipients since 1960.
PUBLIC SCHOOL INDICATORS: We’ve updated two sections of this resource--the section on school funding and spending and the one on crowding in school buildings.