High schools across New York every year graduate kids who can barely read or do basic math, yet the puffed-up poobahs at the state Board of Regents are adding a new \u201cclimate science\u201d requirement.<\/p>\n
Starting in 2027, this latest piece of the Regent\u2019s absurdly named \u201cNew York Inspires\u201d plan will force schools to teach K-12 students about what causes climate change, how it affects ecosystems and people, and the possible solutions; the powers that be in Empire State education are apparently worried that some teachers might be giving students the wrong messages.<\/p>\n
We have our doubts whether obscenely overpaid<\/a> state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa<\/a> or the board led by Chancellor Lester Young Jr. have the knowledge base and critical-thinking skills to oversee the setting of a solid climate-science curriculum; this move is simply fresh testimony to their politics-first approach to their duties.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve spent the past few years undermining academic standards, watering down state proficiency exams and easing high-school-graduation requirements<\/a> \u2014 even as independent testing<\/a> shows New York kids treading water in the middle of the national pack, despite highest-in-the-nation spending in the name of K-12 education.<\/p>\n