It is truly nickel-and-diming to ask for the rainy day money. Black's idiotic response that the city has "no money" is ridiculous in that nickels and dimes from individual schools won't make up any imagined shortfall, anyway. The mayor and the chancellor are constantly changing their tunes in an effort to turn cops, firefighters, and teachers against each other - I'm sure that at some point, Black will claim that the spare change she collects from the principals will be funding the variable annual supplement for uniformed personnel, then turn around and say the supplement is why so many teachers are being laid off. I'm so tired and so sick of the oligarchy - it seems like nothing is going to stop them. Unless New York turns into Egypt or Wisconsin soon.

Be careful about forcing schools to spend money rather then returning it. From my experience this will only lead to money spent on wasted supplies.

I have heard that a school that fails to spend money in the current year will have their funding decreased accordingly in the coming year.

With a little thought a better way can easily be found.

Where is all the Lottery money, millions and millions. Gambling justified in the name of education. Ms. Black is asking for nickels and dimes from those that can barely afford it. Let's see her raise this question about the Lottery to the mayor, the governor, the state controller.