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City Budget Priorities for Fiscal Year 2026

The Fiscal Year 2026 budget must sustain important education programs funded with one-year city dollars set to expire in June 2025 and make additional investments to address pressing needs.

Two teenagers sitting outside doing homework. (Photo by qunica.com, Adobe Stock)
Photo by qunica.com, Adobe Stock
  • Preschool special education classes ($55M)

  • Promise NYC ($25M)

  • 3-K and Pre-K: 3-K ($112M), Extended day seats ($25M), and Outreach ($5M)

  • Multi-faceted immigrant family communication & outreach ($4M)

  • Restorative justice ($12M)

  • Kontinyòm Sante Mantal ($5M)

  • Learning to Work ($31M)

  • Community schools ($14M)

  • Summer Rising ($80M)

  • Provide preschoolers with disabilities with the evaluations and services they need ($70M) and extend enhancements of the recent early childhood labor agreement to staff at preschool special education programs at CBOs.

  • Expand access to one-on-one or small group support for students who need more help learning to read ($17.5M).

  • Enhance services at school-based mental health clinics ($3.75M).

  • Make more schools accessible to students, parents, educators, and community members with physical disabilities ($450M in capital funding over five years).