A report highlighted in the New York Post says that 300,000 New York City Public school students did not appear to the school last year.
“Teachers' unions have emphasized the importance of coming to school after Covid, which sent a signal to students until the attendance of the semester is optional,” said Lindsay Burke, Director of the Education Policy Center at the Heritage Corporation. Fox News digital In a statement. “This still has devastating effects on students learning results.”
“The number of K-12 students It is considered a chronic absent -Or it came out for 10 days or more in the school year for 180 days-from 26.5 % in the period 2018-19 that precedes the Covid-19 pandemic to 34.8 % in 2023-24, “according to a study that covered it exclusively to the Manhattan Institute.
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These figures may indicate that more than 300,000 out of 900,000 students in the public school system in New York City were absent.
Performing students in the educational areas of New York, however, increased significantly.
A January report By the Citizen Budget Committee, I found that “the educational areas in New York are scheduled to spend $ 89 billion in the academic year 2024-25-36293 dollars per student. Over the past four years, total spending has grown for each student at 21.0 percent or 4.9 % annually.”
Even with large financing increases, the levels of efficiency of topics including mathematics and reading also suffer from suffering.
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National evaluation of educational progress, or Naep, I found it Last year, only 33 % of the fourth grade students in New York City were mastered in mathematics, compared to 23 % in 2022 and 32 % in 2019. Twenty -eight percent of the fourth grade students in the city were skilled in reading.
Twenty -three per cent of the eighth grade students in Big Apple were mastered in mathematics and 29 % were proficient in reading, with a little reading of 25 % and 27 % in 2022.
Burke Fox News told the digital that the increase in spending, along with low “disturbing” efficiency.
She said: “The fact that New York is now spending $ 36,000 per student annually to teach kindergarten to the twelfth grade – a stunning amount of taxpayers’ money – makes chronic absenteeism more concerned. ” “New York is now spending $ 89 billion annually on public education – more than Croatia's gross domestic product – however, academic results are still flat. Less than 3 out of 10 eighth graders can read efficiently – statistics that must keep the New York residents at night.”
“New York families will be better presented by the state, allowing them to reach a part of $ 36,000 that was spent annually to pay to attend a favorite school. These new numbers add urgency to the need to choose comprehensive schools in New York.”
President Donald TrumpWho carried out a campaign on the elimination of the Ministry of Education during the 2024 presidential elections, is expected to issue an executive order calling for the new Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, who was confirmed on Monday as the thirteenth Minister of Education, to start the process of canceling the ministry.
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“Since the epidemic, New York Public City schools have reduced chronic absenteeism over the past three years thanks to the strategies that encourage students' presence, including” every student every day “, and providing a set of services and society.
“We are also providing professional development for employees and their targeted support for community schools. In addition, we support areas and schools to help families reach food, clothing and hygiene supplies, as well as counseling, and health services, all of which are obstacles to regular presence,” the press secretary added.
