DOE spending $48M on substitutes and emergency teachers due to COVID-19

Department of Education funding for substitute teachers and other emergency instructors will balloon from roughly $2 million to about $48 million this year due to the coronavirus crisis, The Post has learned.

According to a DOE budgeting document, the agency is giving schools across the city an extra $47,856,477 to shore up staffing shortfalls.

With school populations split up to facilitate social distancing due to the coronavirus, the number of classes have multiplied at most buildings.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/doe-spending-48m-on-substitutes-emergency-teachers-due-to-covid-19/