Facing the threatened closure by the state of the city’s two worst high schools, Mayor de Blasio, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña and United Federation Teachers President Michael Mulgrew locked arms in a teacher protection plan.
The rescue plan for struggling schools that Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled on Monday needs to be fleshed out in greater detail before it can be fully appraised. But it is already clear that the plan — which involves giving failing schools support services and seeing how that turns out — might not be sufficient to remake the city’s lowest-achieving, most-dysfunctional schools. The plan could easily delay action on schools that are in desperate straits and should be reorganized or closed in fairly short order.
Mayor de Blasio campaigned on a vow to keep kids locked up in failing schools. This week he’s making good on that promise.
City educrats won’t be ready to submit required plans for improving 250 struggling schools during the current school year until Dec. 31 — nearly halfway into the academic year, The Post has learned.
Mayor de Blasio’s long-awaited school renewal plan is a step in the right direction, but only a step. It lacks a critical component: a clear discussion of methodology.
THE best escalator to opportunity in America is education. But a new study underscores that the escalator is broken.
We expect each generation to do better, but, currently, more young American men have less education (29 percent) than their parents than have more education (20 percent).
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña made good on her promise to shake up the school system’s superintendents by replacing eight of them and filling another seven vacancies. The move comes after she said earlier this year that she wanted more experienced educators to oversee the city’s principals.
It’s the first rule of life in the progressive city: Offer a product that succeeds where the government model has failed, and sooner or later you’ll find yourself labeled an enemy of the people.
The administration is right when it says that every school can’t be a small one. But given the clear benefits that have accrued to the city’s most vulnerable students, Mr. de Blasio should not shy away from the option of shutting down big schools and remaking them from scratch, particularly in cases where the school has been failing for a long time and its culture is beyond repair.
Many of the 17 schools chosen by chancellor Carmen Fariña to be part of her Showcase Schools program—and lauded as exemplary—have low math and English exam scores.