Yonkers Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Edwin Quezada wants to take the easy way out and eliminate teachers in his new budget proposal.

The Yonkers school budget is tied in with the city’s 1.24 Billion budget

Superintendent Edwin Quezada says he is facing many uncertainties with the global coronavirus pandemic and he must decimate the teaching staffs at struggling schools, even though the mayor is giving him well over a half a billion bucks.

Mayor Mike Spano says his half of the of this year’s $1.24 billion budget preserves city services and positions, but it appears that Superintendent Edwin Quezada doesn’t want to cut the fraud waste and abuse in the schools to save teaching jobs needed by Yonkers students.

Superintendent Edwin Quezada says he his yearly poor budgeting skills has once again created a multi-million dollar shortfall and he needs an extra a shortfall of about $22 million more dollars from taxpayers

The only good news currently is that the combined city and school budgets comes with a proposed 2.8% increase in property tax which stays within the state mandated tax cap, but Superintendent Edwin Quezada’s desire for millions more could mess that up too.