A new report from the Success Academy charter school network claims that as many as half of New York City schools are failing in reading and math, despite the city spending more per student than any other city in the country.
Contrast this with the success the state of Arkansas is having in schools while spending far less.
Also, it is worth noting that while Zohran Mamdani backs pretty much all the policies that are causing this problem, the problem began long before he arrived there.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Close to Half of New York City Schools Are Failing, New Report SaysNearly half of New York City public schools are failing to get a majority of their students to pass standardized tests measuring math and reading, even though the city is spending about twice as much money on the schools as other districts do, a devastating new report from the Success Academy charter school network says.Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz, a former chair of the New York City Council’s education committee, is billing the report as “profoundly shocking” and “the most complete accounting of school failure in New York City ever assembled.” At 35 pages, with an additional 11 appendices, it tells the grim story of how 409,379 public school students, 43 percent of the city’s total, are in failing schools.New York is by far the largest public school district in the United States. Failing schools there have far-reaching effects on the workforce, electorate, and business climate in the nation’s largest city.”These are not schools teetering at the edge of success. They are schools that have been massively failing — persistently, systemically, and at staggering public expense — for years, and in many cases for decades,” says the report, titled “By Any Honest Measure: New York City’s Long Record of School Failure — and the Price We Keep Paying.””The cost is enormous. New York City spent $40 billion on public education in 2024 — $36,293 per pupil, double the national average of $17,619,” the report says. “The city is now committed to billions more to fund a class-size mandate that the evidence does not support, while propping up hundreds of vacant schools that drain resources at a premium rate with no return.”
More from the New York Post:
About a third of the 906 schools have appeared on state “accountability” lists since 2012, and some have been designated as failures for decades, the analysis found.Instead of attacking the 5-alarm fire, the stinging indictment claims city and state policies have only worsened the situation by failing to address the scandal or trying to hide it.“These are not accidents. They are the product of a system that has chosen, year after year, to protect itself rather than serve its students,” the report, titled, “By Any Honest Measure,” said.“Imagine a hospital where more than half of patients died from routine procedures. A fire department that failed to respond to more than half its calls. A municipal water utility that delivered contaminated water to more than half its residents, or air traffic controllers whose lack of oversight regularly resulted in massive casualties.“No other public institution would be permitted to operate in this way.”
The solution to this problem is very simple.
Knock off the DEI, social justice, and gender nonsense, and get back to teaching the basics.
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