The Board of Regents voted to require personal faculties, like yeshivas to observe minimal educational requirements.
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Of their newest strike at schooling requirements, the state Board of Regents this week set the bar for passing the once-prestigious Regents Exams at only a 50% rating for an additional 12 months. The excuse is that these youngsters didn’t get the educating they need to’ve throughout COVID — however the influence is to make a high-school Regents diploma much less significant.
Not coincidentally, it would cut back parental fury over the training misplaced as faculties closed throughout COVID.
We strongly suspect for this reason the State Schooling Division, which solutions to the Regents, is maintaining the total outcomes of final 12 months’s Third-through-Eighth grade state exams below wraps: In previous years, school-level outcomes have been publicly accessible by now, however the SED has ordered the information saved below wraps with no clear timeline for when mother and father can be taught the reality.
Because the Empire Middle’s Ian Kingsbury notes, the information is more likely to be grim, as nationwide exams present huge COVID studying loss. But New Yorkers want “to be armed with a full image of the present situation of schooling within the Empire State” earlier than they vote this November.
Notably, outcomes from the 2019 Regents Exams helped justify the Regents’ vote to crack down on yeshivas that don’t attempt to educate primary English and math abilities, however nonetheless acquire taxpayer money.
The lacking data would possibly effectively counsel that many common public faculties that faux to show are nonetheless failing kids each bit as badly. The document suggests the Regents and SED need to cover that grim information.
As we’ve famous earlier than, the Regents turned in opposition to requirements after Carl Heastie grew to become the Meeting speaker and appointed a board majority. And he received the speakership after profitable the approval of the state academics union — which doesn’t need mother and father getting any unhealthy information about their youngsters’ achievements.
The identical union (and its potent NYC native) is all-in for Gov. Kathy Hochul to win on Election Day. That needs to be motive sufficient for each New York mother or father to vote for Lee Zeldin as an alternative.
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