ALBANY -- The Syracuse City School District is getting some of its' funding back from the state.
The State Education Commissioner announced on Wednesday that he restored School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding for five districts.
The schools lost out on school improvement grant money after missing a deadline to renegotiate teacher and principal evaluations.
Commissioner John King says Syracuse is one of five school districts that have now submitted acceptable evaluations.
Syracuse schools will now receive $11.5 million in funding that had been suspended.
The fundung was suspended in early January when the schools provided paperwork documenting that the district and teachers unions had reached agreements but the state believed there were shortcomings in those plans. Syracuse schools were just one of ten schools that had funding suspended.
Syracuse schools face a $35 million budget gap in the next budget.
