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Our children are failed by an education system that doesn’t care — and teacher unions are to blame

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New York spends more per student than any state in the nation.

Yet fewer than half off of its third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students scored proficiently on the English Language Arts exam, according to the preliminary data released this week. 

Just 43% of third-graders, 48% of fourth-graders and 43% of fifth-graders scored proficient in ELA. The biggest drop was seen in fifth grade, a 14-point decrease from the 2024-25 school year. Third-graders showed an 11-point drop.

This is what happens when teacher unions get their way. Standards are lowered. No consequences for bad schools or bad instructors.

And our children? Failed by a system that doesn’t care.

As of 2019, state test scores would no longer play a role in teacher evaluations. By 2024, nor would any measure of whether students learned at all.

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