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906: The damning figure that tells the tragic story of NYC’s public school failure

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The Success Academy charter-school network’s just-released report on New York City public-school failure is so shocking and troubling that even anti-charter-school teachers unions should be shaking in horror.

The report crunches the numbers on school accountability, quality, expenditures and standardized test results.

Its finding? Widespread, pervasive, tragic dysfunction.

A system rife with grade inflation, under-enrolled schools, no accountability and assorted tricks meant to obscure failure.

Remember this number: 906.

That’s how many perennial failure factories, out of 1,600 city schools, are allowed to fester year after year.

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