NYC politicians’ endless investments in failed schools

The New York Post reports:

Massive failure in the city’s public schools. Parents fleeing in droves. Tens of thousands of kids on charter-school waiting lists begging for a seat.

So how does our City Council’s Education Committee respond? It demands a dead halt to new charters, ensuring that kids trapped in the failing schools have no good public school to turn to.

“We oppose any further expansion” of charters, 10 of the committee’s members wrote last week in a letter to State University of New York trustees, who under the law can grant a charter.

Meanwhile, at the same time these council members were demanding death for new charters, a new study from the Family for Excellent Schools spelled out the horror of the schools they are willing to keep open. At 371 New York City public schools — nearly a quarter of the total — more than 90 percent of the kids cannot read or do math at grade level.

Ninety percent.

When you hear politicians call government spending "investments": watch out.