NY Education: $37 Billion Budget, Lavish Salaries and No Learning
NAEP shows that our kids are not learning - but our education officials are too busy raising their salaries to pay any attention
We have had a flood of education news in the last few weeks. I am trying to highlight here what is the most important for our families in NY.
My new article in the NY Sun discusses the contradiction of having a $37 billion budget for education in NY and little learning for our kids.
We cannot continue to have the most expensive public schools in the nation, alongside lavish salaries for state education officials, while our schoolchildren achieve mediocre results on national tests.”
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Nation’s Report Card shows only 37% of New York 4th graders are proficient in math and just 31% in reading
The 2024 Nation’s Report Card has terrible news about NY students and really terrible news about low-income students nationwide.
“The average score of fourth-grade students in New York was not significantly different from the average score for students in the nation,” the report states.
Chad Adelman had the best graph to show how low-income students are in a free fall.
More money is not helping NY kids learn
The Edunomics Lab released graphs showing how much money states have invested in education and the results for kids based on NAEP scores. In NY, spending on education has grown nearly double the inflation rate over the last ten years, while children’s performance has steadily declined.
Still, the President of New York State United Teachers, Melinda Person, gave an interview recently saying that “we have a long list of things we are asking for, and we are regularly told that the State can not afford it,” and that is why her coalition is advocating for an increase in income and corporate taxes in NY.
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