NY State Ed’s pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We’ll stop tracking it
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NY State Ed’s pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We’ll stop tracking it

ByNews Polite

For years now, we’ve been slamming the State Education Department and its rulers, the state Board of Regents, as having turned against anything resembling excellence, but we’re still shocked at SED’s latest move. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli just issued a blaring alarm about how truancy soared in New York schools…

State data offer further proof that school lockdowns were a disaster for kids
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State data offer further proof that school lockdowns were a disaster for kids

ByNews Polite

Lockdowns set New York City’s public-school kids back big-time, state test data just confirmed — fresh proof that the COVID-phobic teachers union put the children’s interests last. Math scores for kids in Grades 3-8 took a nosedive — with only 38% of kids being proficient. That was a drop of…

The fate of a generation of Jewish children is at stake in yeshiva debate
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The fate of a generation of Jewish children is at stake in yeshiva debate

ByNews Polite

In a surprisingly caustic Wall Street Journal op-ed last year, Dovid Margolin, a senior editor at the Hasidic magazine Chabad.org, warned of a major new threat to his community’s vast network of schools, known as yeshivas. “New York’s yeshivas face a challenge with echoes of ancient persecution,” he wrote, comparing…