Faculty Chancellor David Banks was unprepared to reply for the town's disastrous highschool admissions lottery system.
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Faculties Chancellor David Banks must do his homework.
He got here off as shocked by information he ought to’ve been effectively conscious of, in what was in any case a stunning employees failure.
Mother and father throughout the town are livid on the outcomes of this yr’s high-school-admissions lottery, which noticed many teenagers denied all 12 of their high selections and assigned some youngsters to varsities so unacceptable that households are personal colleges and different choices.
Not solely has The Submit coated this in full since February, however we warned him about it. Certainly, Banks knew the lottery system was bother even when he reluctantly let it go forward.
So he completely ought to’ve been able to reply the query eventually week’s Chancellor’s Mother or father Advisory Council assembly from the Group District 2 rep.
It was about “simply 82% [of CD2 teens] getting their 1-12 faculty selections,” with “different districts . . . additionally within the 80s-percent vary. Is there any replace you may inform us to assist?”
As a substitute, he spoke for seven minutes on different points. Then the council co-chair repeated the query, and Banks appeared confused, asking first, “These percentages you gave me . . . You might be saying it’s for youths who didn’t get into any of their 12 selections?!” after which, “Out of all 12 selections? They didn’t get any?”
Then he stated he’d work with employees to get extra information “as a result of that has not been dropped at my consideration simply but.”
OK, the chancellor’s been distracted by the ridiculous teacher-union-driven flap over finances cuts for colleges with plummeting enrollment, with the Metropolis Council additionally going nuts. And he faces many, many different points as he tries to avoid wasting a system Crew de Blasio despatched right into a nosedive.
However to be so unaware of an pressing concern that has dad and mom up in arms, when he was assembly with dad and mom’ reps, is inexcusable. He ought to guarantee his employees provides him thorough briefings on all native tales in regards to the colleges — and put disasters just like the lottery outcomes on his “pressing” listing.
Like Mayor Eric Adams, Banks is preventing the great struggle, however neither man will succeed and not using a robust crew.
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