end the exams-based Regents diploma<\/a> \u201cincredibly stupid\u201d and a cynical bid \u201cto disguise the fact that too many New York state schools are failing to educate our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cInstead of doing the appropriate testing so that corrective measures could be taken to improve [kids\u2019 performance], they simply get rid of the tests to hide their failure,\u201d explains Pataki.<\/p>\n
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Scrapping the Regents diploma outright followed years of SED dumbing down the exams to keep graduation numbers up; now they\u2019ve eliminated the bar entirely.<\/p>\n
Yes, the \u201csmart\u201d students can still take Regents exams to show advanced proficiency \u2014 but now it\u2019ll be easy for schools to look OK even though they demand nothing of the kids, who\u2019ll mostly only realize they\u2019ve been robbed later on.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to a fluke of the state Constitution, choosing the Regents is de facto up to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who sold his soul to the standards-hating teachers unions to acquire his post \u2014 but Hochul, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo before her, could and should have at least called out the betrayal of New York\u2019s kids. <\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani plainly won\u2019t lift a finger: He chose failed-upward functionary Kamar Samuels as his schools chancellor, and shows zero interest in education beyond expanding day care. <\/p>\n
Maybe that\u2019s wise, since all the adults with any responsibility for public education in this state seem to think that day care is all the schools really need to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CUNY graduation rates are falling fast \u2014 the fruit of the state Board of Regents\u2019 war on standards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9118,2397,4337,304,18088,44771,426,9,24,55,54,56,299,209,6916,51975],"class_list":["post-359413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-board-of-regents","tag-cuny","tag-department-of-education","tag-editorial","tag-george-pataki","tag-graduation","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-public-schools","tag-standardized-testing","tag-standards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}