New York’s public-school system is an ongoing horror — one that traps hundreds of thousands of kids in schools that don’t work, “tracked” into dead-end “promotions” to equally bad schools that lead to worthless diplomas and limited economic opportunities for the rest of their lives.
The city’s worst performing schools are the most segregated.
At 283 schools in the bottom quarter of Common Core test scores in Grades 3 through 8 this year, an average 96 percent of kids are black and Hispanic, 2 percent white and 2 percent Asian, city data show.
A report from a pro-charter group says that students who attend poor-performing elementary schools moved up to high-performing middle schools just 1.6% of the time.
Sometimes the least surprising news is the most depressing. Reported exclusively Tuesday in the Daily News are the findings of a new report: The nation’s largest school district is effectively two separate systems — one for Asians and relatively well-to-do white children, the other for mostly low-income black and Hispanic children.
For decades, Central Brooklyn families have been forced to live with educational dysfunction in their district schools. Today, public charter schools are offering entire communities a way out. From Bed-Stuy to Brownsville to East New York, more than 2 out of 5 families with kindergartners want their child to attend a charter school.