Staggering 900 NYC public schools failing students amid grade inflation, lax accountability

Welcome to New York’s flunking factories.Failure in the city’s public education system has become “normalized” — and even bolstered by grade inflation and fixing — with nearly half of schools consistently failing their students, a bombshell new report found.The sweeping analysis, conducted by the Success Academy Charter Schools network, found that in those 906 public schools, fewer than half of students passed math, reading, or both, on state exams last year.In total, a staggering 43% of the system’s approximately 912,000 students are in these failing schools, according to the shocking report released Tuesday.Of the 906 schools, a majority of students in 503 of them failed both math and reading.About a third of the 906 schools have appeared on state “accountability” lists since 2012, and some have been designated as failures for decades, the analysis found.Instead of attacking the 5-alarm fire, the stinging indictment claims city and state policies have only worsened the situation by failing to address the scandal or trying to hide it.“These are not accidents.They are the product of a system that has chosen, year after year, to protect itself rather than serve its students,” the report, titled, “By Any Honest Measure,” said.“Imagine a hospital where more than half of patients died from routine procedures.

A fire department that failed to respond to more than half its calls.A municipal water utility that delivered contaminated water to more than half its residents, or air traffic controllers whose lack of oversight regularly resulted in massive casualties. “No other public institution would be permitted to operate in this way.”But the level of failure in the nation’s largest public school system “has been normalized — and, worse, systematically obscured.”Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politicsSuccess Academy head, Eva Moskowitz, said the report marked the most extensive...