Junior Gysel Montufar, head of Hillhouse High’s math club, posed this numbers question to Mayor John DeStefano based on his proposed new school budget: Cut $166,255 from the textbook fund. That leaves a remainder of $617,777. Divide by 20,000 students. Resulting quotient: Only $31 per student for textbooks for the whole year, when the average text costs more than twice that amount. Do you care?If I didn’t, the mayor responded, I wouldn’t be at this meeting.
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