Study Shows Black and Latino Children in NYC are Not Learning in Public Fool System in City Controlled by Elite White Liberals
/From [HERE] Some New York City public schools spend up to three times as much per student than the citywide average — but show dismal results, The Post has found.
The average per-pupil budget at NYC public schools was $21,112 in fiscal year 2023-24, according to new reports posted by the city Department of Education, but dozens spend much more — up to $60,000-plus — while producing math and reading scores well below the citywide average, records show.
This year, after Chancellor David Banks ordered many schools to adopt a new phonics-based curriculum, the citywide proficiency rate in reading for NYC students in grades 3-8 fell from 51.7% last year to 49.1%, according to preliminary results released this week. Math proficiency inched up 3.5 percentage points from last year to 53%.
The final results to come out this fall may differ because the preliminary data don’t include kids learning to speak English – their scores are still being “verified,” documents show.
But many of the lowest-scoring schools enroll fewer than 100 children with per-pupil spending on par with a pricey private education, records show.
“It’s really scary that students are performing so poorly with all that money being spent,” a DOE administrator who reviewed the data told The Post. “I’m shocked that district superintendents haven’t stepped in to question what’s going on.” [MORE]