{"id":1006041,"date":"2026-08-17T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:24:59","slug":"the-truth-the-nyc-department-of-education-doesnt-want-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006041\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth the NYC Department of Education doesn&#8217;t want you to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/13\/us-news\/sharks-circling-around-samuels-after-disastrous-city-council-hearings-dead-man-walking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamar Samuels\u2019 <\/a>Department of Education can\u2019t teach the kids, but still hopes to snow everyone ese.<\/p>\n<p>Just a week after the release of test scores showed that more than half of city 3rd- to 5th-graders can\u2019t pass state reading tests, the DOE dared claim that 96% of city families are satisfied with their children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/10\/us-news\/mamdani-admin-rocked-by-claims-of-rigged-investigation-into-nyc-nyc-schools-chancellor-kamar-samuels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pseudo-scientific School Survey <\/a>\u2014 some principals dangle pizza parties to entice students and families to complete the online poll \u2014 touted more than 870,000 students, families and educators expressing \u201cstrong support\u201d for embattled Chancellor Samuels.<\/p>\n<p>Hah! Samuels has yet to outline any plans to address falling enrollment, chronic absenteeism and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion\/mamdanis-public-schools-priorities-more-wokery-dont-worry-about-the-illiteracy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soaring illiteracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the DOE\u2019s satisfaction numbers are flatly contradicted by other evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Any Honest Measure,\u201d the  Success Academy report on the true state of city schools, shows that students\u2019 feedback tell a different story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Just 41% of students report feeling \u201cchallenged academically,\u201d while 53% say they feel bored in school.<\/p>\n<p>And plenty of other parent surveys show real anger: A recent Empire Center poll found that 60% of city respondents want improvements in reading and math results.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the plummeting enrollment in DOE schools, even as the population at public charter schools grows year after year, is the most telling \u201ccustomer feedback\u201d of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels\u2019 Department of Education can\u2019t teach the kids, but still hopes to snow everyone ese.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1006042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,17452,4691,220635,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,40852,6214,10893,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1006041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-department-of-education","tag-editorial","tag-kamar-samuels","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-public-schools","tag-students","tag-surveys","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117109661894926595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}