Fraud defines the public-school system in New York City and the entire state

Lawsuits will never fix the city Department of Education, but hail to Information Technology HS teacher Susan Muzafar for exposing one damning instance of fraud that’s endemic at DOE schools.Muzafar is seeking damages because she says school administrators changed a student’s grade in her English class from an F to a passing mark — and did it behind her back.More, she claims (all too believably) that she was then penalized for making a stink.She says the student in question was unqualified for an advanced class and failed to do the necessary work; the “upgrade” fits ITHS’s pattern of letting such students enroll in tougher classes and then get unearned grades.A host of “successful” students makes administrators look good — why worry about ensuring students actually learn?Such cheating — by school leaders — is longstanding and rampant across the DOE system.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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The Post exposed it at Brooklyn’s John Dewey HS in 2015 (kids passed science class by watching “Jurassic Park”!) and in a whole long series of “worthless diploma” stories across a decade.How many schools are playing these games to hide their failure to teach? The recent Success Academy study identified 906 failures — more than half the city’s 1,600 schools.Meanwhile, the State Education Department is lowering graduation requirements to further cover up failure all across New York.The people in charge of the public schools — in the city and indeed the entire state — don’t give a damn about delivering for the kids, and the system’s set up so they don’t have to....