91 NYC schools have been failing for a combined 642 years. New data show that more than 50,000 New York City students attend schools with the state's lowest test scores and graduation rates.

Crain's New York reports:

Half the state's failing schools are located within the five boroughs, according to data released Thursday from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with nearly half of those in the Bronx.

More than 50,000 New York City students, or about 5% of the city's pupils, attend 91 of the state's 178 failing schools. This includes 44 in the Bronx, 25 in Brooklyn, 12 in Manhattan and 10 in Queens. (There were no Staten Island schools on the state's report.)

Some 40 of the 91 city schools have the dubious distinction of failing for a full decade. The average school in the group has been failing for a little more than seven years.

Mr. Cuomo's office noted that the failures come even as the city's per-pupil spending ($20,266) is nearly double the national average, with total funding up 13% over the past three years, to more than $1 billion annually.

"This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools," Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

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