Posted on 11/03/2021 5:07:06 AM PDT by george76
After weeks of stonewalling, the city’s Department of Education finally had to make public the 2021 school year enrollment figures but was still shifty.
With an Oct. 31 deadline to report the numbers to the state Education Department, the DOE announced a total of 938,000 students enrolled, compared with 955,000 last year.
But that includes pre-K toddlers — a category that’s growing, and so hides any larger K-12 decline.
Nor did the DOE provide a grade-by-grade breakdown to give the public a better understanding of what’s going on.
It did admit that charter-school enrollment rose 3.2 percent, from 139,000 to 143,000: These schools handle about 13 percent of the total public-school population of 1,081,000.
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DOE flacks blame falling birth rates, but this is clearly an exodus from its schools, driven by parental dissatisfaction. Charter and private schools have rising enrollment, and even homeschooling is up. The only thing still rising at DOE schools is spending.
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DOE flacks blame falling birth rates, but this is clearly an exodus from its schools, driven by parental dissatisfaction. Charter and private schools have rising enrollment, and even homeschooling is up. The only thing still rising at DOE schools is spending.
Look for the Union label
Even with declining enrollments....
The education budget will still go up.
The number of school employees will still go up.
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Now, add up he numbers and get the real total!
Since money is involved, accurate numbers must be displayed, or people need to start going to jail for fraud. And since federal funds are involved in pretty much all public school budgets, people who produce fraudulent numbers should be prosecuted federally. Easy peasy.
Only 11% of Shitcago public school students are White. 4% are Asian. The remainder? Black & Hispanic.
It's not hard to see why Shitcago public schools are failing when you look at the power of the teachers unions, the "curriculum" that focuses on CRT, lack of math, reading, science and the continual lowering of the bar so that students that can barely read, write and perform math beyond the third to fifth grade level graduate from H.S.
No wonder America has sunk so far compared to our other western world counterparts.
If the district reported an enrollment of 900,000, but the true enrollment is 889,404 then there's a difference of 10,596 students. The article doesn't reveal what the schools get per student, but picking an arbitrary number of 30,000 per student, the fraud would be 317,880,000 dollars. It seems to me that it would be worthwhile for someone to come forth as a whistle blower if there were a substantial reward to be had for proving fraud.
Yes. Public school failure on epic scale.
It is also a cultural problem.
Figures never lie, but “liars figure”.
It is the ComDem way.
Union label? hammer & sickle
How many people MOVED completely OUT of NYC???
The “follow the science” crowd always cooks the books.
It is like hiring the mob to do your accounting.
It is notoriously hard to homeschool in NY -- many, many hoops to jump thru; curriculum is mandated & must be specific, lesson plans pre-approved & followed to a T, must keep track of "attendance", standardized testing & evaluation/supervision (by an accredited teacher) required every other year or so.
If parents are willing to go thru' all of this to homeschool, they must be very, very disappointed in the public school system.
How many?
A huge number for a long time.
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