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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?