The mayor's final budget for 2016 will provide budget increases of up to 20 percent for 130 "struggling" or "underfunded" schools, with most of the new funding going to schools in the city's Renewal turnaround program.
The de Blasio administration is looking to expand the “community school” model to more than 200 city schools by 2017, a plan that extends much further beyond the 128 schools the city has already committed to transform into service hubs with extra social services and wellness programs.
The host of problems that were uncovered at New York City’s Head Start centers during a federal inspection last year were discovered after the Office of Head Start implemented a new oversight policy.
High demand for pre-kindergarten and the steep cost of securing private pre-K space in areas with overcrowded public schools forced the mayor to increase spending in his 2016 executive budget by tens of millions of dollars.
