The school year started out with a barrage of bad news for public school parents. Just as classes were set to begin, we learned that citywide test scores had plummeted and that enrollment was down more than 100,000 students since COVID.

Then we found out over just a few days last month that there were fewer children in pre-K and 3-K than last year and the Department of Education (DOE) has resorted to paying school administrators to legally comply with new class size limits.

What has City Hall done in response? They delayed implementation of the class size law, did not discipline DOE over a procurement scandal, and did nothing when the state announced it was putting an end to the main accountability tool parents have to judge their high schools: the Regents exam.

And now there is reporting that the chancellor’s plan to desegregate our very segregated schools has stalled, and that city payments to childcare........

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