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NY test scores plummet, kids flee — yet empty schools stay open, wasting billions
« on: February 15, 2025, 06:38:28 am »

NY test scores plummet, kids flee — yet empty schools stay open, wasting billions
Opinion by Christian Barnard • 12h

Troubling news keeps piling up for New York’s public schools. Kids keep performing poorly on standardized tests, fueling a race to the exits by parents seeking better opportunities.

That’s led to school enrollments well below capacity. Yet these schools remain open, draining dollars — without boosting achievement. 
 
For taxpayers — and parents seeking better schools — it’s pure madness.

Take the just-released National Assessment of Educational Progress (a k a, the “nation’s report card”): It finds just 23% of eighth-graders in the city are proficient in math, and 29% in reading.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ny-test-scores-plummet-kids-flee-yet-empty-schools-stay-open-wasting-billions/ar-AA1z5nkQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=16bd33d129844a379de0b3e073a1c86f&ei=76
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Re: NY test scores plummet, kids flee — yet empty schools stay open, wasting billions
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2025, 06:40:41 am »
 OMGGGGGGG What will happen to test scores if federal funding is cut?  The state may have to issue IOUs for education. :whistle:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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