NY test scores plummet, kids flee — yet empty schools stay open, wasting billions

[rangerrebew]

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

[rangerrebew]

  What will happen to test scores if federal funding is cut?  The state may have to issue IOUs for education.