{"id":138260,"date":"2025-08-12T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138260\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:14:11","slug":"nyc-schools-are-still-failing-to-teach-over-40-of-kids-and-it-may-soon-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138260\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC schools are still failing to teach over 40% of kids \u2014 and it may soon get WORSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad news: More than 40% of city kids in grades 3-8 failed math and English<\/a> in this spring\u2019s state testing.<\/p>\n

Worse news: Most ideas on the table for the public-school system would only add to the failure.<\/p>\n

The city Department of Education opted to look on the bright side, pointing to small increases in proficiency of 7 points in reading and 3 in math \u2014 but that comes as the State Education Department is steadily watering down the exams. <\/p>\n

Indeed, SED\u2019s hostility to standardized testing is also shown by the insanely delayed release of the results, which in past years came at the start of the summer, not the end. <\/p>\n

That said, the double-digit improvement in Grade 3 (12.9%) and 5 (15%) reading scores suggests that Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 NYC Reads reforms are having a positive impact after two years. <\/p>\n

But even these gains are imperiled, as the leading mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, seeks to end mayoral control and so hand de facto control of the schools to the United Federation of Teachers \u2014 whose only priorities are ever-growing pay and perks for its members, and gaining more members to collect dues from. <\/p>\n

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Because it\u2019s somehow coded as \u201cprogressive,\u201d Mamdani also openly intends to wage war<\/a> on the city\u2019s charter schools \u2014 the very public schools that best deliver for the lower-income, minority children that fare worst in DOE schools. <\/p>\n

Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, polling second in the race, was once better on these issues \u2014 has now declared allegiance to the UFT and turned his back on charters: As we\u2019ve said before, he\u2019ll betray anyone to serve his own interests.<\/p>\n

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That 40% of schoolchildren in grades 3 through 8 can\u2019t earn a barely passing grade in math or English is the shame of a city. Parents should be furious. Politicians should be embarrassed.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s mayoral contest has so far offered not even token debate on improving public education, and now Mamdani\u2019s trying to make the race all about who can best fight President Donald Trump. He and Cuomo are in a race to see who hates President Trump more.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s children matter a lot more to the city\u2019s future; here\u2019s hoping the candidates don\u2019t keep getting away with ignoring their needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad news: More than 40% of city kids in grades 3-8 failed math and English in this spring\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,18728,17452,4691,5289,43433,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,40852,47333,82849,38597,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-138260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-charter-schools","11":"tag-department-of-education","12":"tag-editorial","13":"tag-eric-adams","14":"tag-michael-mulgrew","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-public-schools","23":"tag-state-education-department","24":"tag-test-scores","25":"tag-united-federation-of-teachers","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115012912101525994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138260","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=138260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}