{"id":384444,"date":"2025-11-17T04:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384444\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T04:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:23:19","slug":"board-of-regents-mandates-climate-curricula-as-ny-kids-still-struggle-with-math-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384444\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Regents mandates &#8216;climate&#8217; curricula as NY kids still struggle with math and reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High schools across New York every year graduate kids who can barely read or do basic math, yet the puffed-up poobahs at the state Board of Regents are adding a new \u201cclimate science\u201d requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2027, this latest piece of the Regent\u2019s absurdly named  \u201cNew York Inspires\u201d plan will force schools to teach K-12 students about what causes climate change, how it affects ecosystems and people, and the possible solutions; the powers that be in Empire State education are apparently worried that some teachers might be giving students the wrong messages.<\/p>\n<p>We have our doubts whether <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/31\/us-news\/ny-top-school-chiefs-secret-155k-raise-sparks-outrage-from-gop-pols-unwarranted-and-offensive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obscenely overpaid<\/a> state Education Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/29\/us-news\/ny-schools-chief-betty-rosa-defends-hush-hush-155k-raise-while-not-mentioning-nearly-120k-pension\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Rosa<\/a> or the board led by Chancellor Lester Young Jr. have the knowledge base and critical-thinking skills to oversee the setting of a solid climate-science curriculum; this move is simply fresh testimony to their politics-first approach to their duties.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve spent the past few years undermining academic standards, watering down state proficiency exams and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/11\/us-news\/ny-high-school-students-will-no-longer-need-to-pass-regents-exams-to-graduate-under-new-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">easing high-school-graduation requirements<\/a> \u2014 even as<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/18\/opinion\/new-yorks-latest-test-scores-show-why-families-are-fleeing-the-public-schools\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> independent testing<\/a> shows New York kids treading water in the middle of the national pack, despite highest-in-the-nation spending in the name of K-12 education.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa &amp; Co. are focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/14\/opinion\/the-state-education-department-hates-letting-the-public-learn-from-test-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiding the failures<\/a> of New York\u2019s public schools, not fixing them; pretending that they\u2019re taking education into the future with buzzy \u201cclimate education\u201d is just another part of the con.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>The only thing \u201cNew York inspires\u201d under this crew is an accelerating exodus of families who want better lives for their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High schools across New York every year graduate kids who can barely read or do basic math, yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,161225,285,8388,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,40852,47333,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,97583],"class_list":["post-384444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-board-of-regents","tag-climate-change","tag-curriculum","tag-editorial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-public-schools","tag-state-education-department","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-woke-culture"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115563135257276572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384444","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=384444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}