Students are not the only ones wrangling with mathematics this year. Yesterday,The New York Times reported how principals have cut costs to meet their 5% slimmer school budgets, after the budget cuts announced last spring.

According to the Times, principals across the city made most cuts by eliminating teaching positions and reducing spending on equipment, supplies, and books. For one Brooklyn principal at PS 273, the loss of four teachers bumped class size from 21 students to 29.

Today's Daily News reports on overcrowding in other city classrooms -- including  40 students jammed into  one room at PS 102 in the Bronx. Leonie Haimson, of Class Size Matters, has published a Q&A with details about class size limits, according to the UFT contract: 25 in kindergarten, up to 28 in grades 1-3, and 32 in grades 4-6.  Beyond those numbers, teachers can "grieve" (complain) to the Department of Education.<!--more-->

The Times also reports that, while the city says spending on the arts was not be especially affected by the cuts, the Center for Arts Education charges that they've received complaints about schools "disproportionately trimming arts supply budgets and eliminating part-time arts educators."

In May, we asked what you would cut from your school's budget, but now we want to know what's actually been lost. What's being short-changed at your school? Have class sizes risen?