Lack of Math and English Skills

I guess we do not have to turn into Rome, just NYC. No matter, what is important is who is funding FES. What if it is the evil Koch brothers

freebeacon.com/issues/nyc-students-will-...-and-english-skills/


"Thousands of students in New York City schools are failing to meet math and English proficiency but they will learn to be “environmental stewards” as a result of a major school investment in solar panels announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio. As calls mount this week for de Blasio to reform the city’s failing school system, the mayor announced the investment of $23 million in city funds for solar panels at some city schools. In a report issued last week, Families for Excellent Schools detailed the city’s problems. In 2013, less than 10 percent of students met academic standards in the city’s 257 elementary schools. In 2014, 87 of those schools failed to improve 1 percentage point. Of 925 schools surveyed, only 46 had an average proficiency rate in math and English above 50 percent. Additionally, 185 schools had proficiency rates below 10 percent. Only five percent, or 46, of the schools which are Title I schools, which are designated federally as “high poverty,” are delivering a quality education by achieving more than 50 percent proficiency with their underserved student populations. The small number of successful schools, FES pointed out, are public charter schools. The FES also reported approximately 143,000 NYC students were trapped in schools in which less than 1 in 10 students were proficient in Math and English. "...

Wrong priorities? Why do the worst slums in America have Democrat mayors and city councils?

FredHayek wrote: Wrong priorities? Why do the worst slums in America have Democrat mayors and city councils?

Because they govern based in the alternate reality they think the world should be rather than what it is. That is why the President has not grown into the job.

Why the minions still buy it is something of a puzzle. Given the closeness of the election they are quieter than church mouses. I hope I am wrong but suspect their simple world view is unchanged: d=good , r=evil.

HEY ARCHER, are you still lurking or are you too depressed by the obvious failure of progressive governance?

Well at least NYC doesn't have to worry about the burden of educating all the illegals crossing the border. Maybe De Blah Blah can send some solar powered school busses to pick them up and give them a fine NYC education.