Posted on 03/03/2019 6:46:00 PM PST by upchuck
It’s time to go sit in the corner, Billy!
Mayor de Blasio finally admitted Tuesday that his costly and controversial Renewal plan to fix nearly 100 of the city’s worst schools was a failure — pulling the plug on a years-long effort that cost taxpayers $773 million.
“We did not say everything would be perfect,” the mayor said, offering a huge understatement to describe a program that saw one-quarter of its schools either closed or merged.
“We said we were ready to go out there and create real investment, help kids right now, and see how many schools could really turn around.”
In reality, according to the Education Department, less than one-quarter of the schools in the Renewal program improved enough to exit after three years.
The move came nearly two years after The Post published an award-winning series of stories that exposed plunging enrollment, a surge in per-student spending and widespread failures to meet improvement goals at Renewal schools.
The “Education Boondoggle” series also revealed that scores of “leadership coaches” were hired for as much as $1,400 a day, including a retired principal who lied to corruption investigators, and the co-author of a book written by then-Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Its not a cost, its an investment”
The people get the government they deserve.This rings true for new york.
$850 million...$850K...chump change when it’s not yours.
Yeah...you are right.
I but I hear the wind..blowing thru the trees. Nothing more....
I live in OK....and my two Senators are WORTHLESS....And they are Pubbies.
Inhofe is the worse....
Image that! A commie mayor who wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a harebrained scheme.
Who does he think he is, Jerry Brown, Jay Inslee (Wash. State), Martin O’Malley (Md), or whoever had run and ruined Minnesota since the great Somali influx?
#6. Re “At what point do liberals finally realize they are being ruled, taken to the cleaners, by commie idiots”.
Not when they run out of “our” money; only when they run out of “their” money.
Some people are “stick stuck on slow and stupid”.
but i’m sure his plan to destroy the schools for exceptionally bright and talented children by letting anyone in who wants in without meeting any standards will be successful ...
proving once again that Dems pretty much know only how to destroy stuff that other people built ...
“When’s he gonna talk about the $850K...his “wife”...can’t account for?”
You mean Nicholas Maduro DeBlabbio’s lesbian wife pi$$ed away $850k and she can’t tell him where she spent it? Something’s wrong here! She probably bought herself half of Haiti so she has a place to “retire!”
Obama is out and his ‘investment’ euphemism for futile wanton government spending of taxpayer cash should go with him.
“Loose change when you are a billionaire, I understand.“
The.De Blasios are not billionaires.
Until recently, AFAIK.
de Blasio's "Renewal" plan
Sounds like those who voted for De Blasio got about what they had coming.
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