Executive Summary:

New York State spends $22,000 on average to educate a child, but spends about $70,000 per prison bed.
Nearly 70% of all jailed New Yorkers are legally innocent and they are being incarcerated pre-trial, they have been arrested (not convicted) of a crime. New York spends $2.5 billion on county jails each year.
New York state owes schoolchildren across the state $4.1 billion in Foundation Aid.
8 out 10 Black and Latinx students attend a school that has been systematically underfunded by the state.
The school to prison pipeline is fueled by chronic underfunding of schools and the overuse of suspensions, with over 500 suspension per school day.