The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 09 Aug '22

Published: Aug. 11, 2022, 2:09 a.m.

b"\\u2014There are ~1,800 public schools in NYC serving 1 million students. But even though school will start in a month, most schools don't know what their annual budget will be and whether they will have to lay off staff. The matter appeared to be settled on June 13 when Mayor Eric Adams pushed the City\\u2019s annual budget through City Council with hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to school funding. But on Friday New York Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank ruled that the process upon which the Department of Education's budget was established violated state law and allowed City Hall a new vote. Earlier today, the Mayor appealed the decision to a higher court. \\n\\nWe speak with Paul Trust, a father and teacher at P.S. 39 and one of the four plaintiffs in the lawsuit. We were also joined by Kaliris Salas Ramirez, another NYC public school parent and the Manhattan representative on the Panel for Education Policy, the New York City school board. \\n\\n\\u2014Then, in our second segment, we hear a bit from john about the upcoming state and national legislative elections from co-host John Tarleton. Tarleton is the Editor-in-Chief of The Indy and a keen observer of electoral politics.\\n\\n\\u2014Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been sending the asylum seekers to \\u201csanctuary cities\\u201d Washington, DC, and NYC for months \\u2014 without sufficient food, water and medical assistance, say those that are supporting the migrants as they arrive. Since Friday, two buses carrying asylum seekers have arrived from Texas, with a total of 68 passengers. 4,000 immigrants have come from Texas in the last few months.\\n\\nWe are joined in our third segment by Adriana Phillips, founder of South Bronx Mutual Aid and a member of the NYC ICE watch network. She has been on-the-ground, greeting buses as they arrive from Texas."