By Post Editorial Board
“The whole city should be just as outraged as Melissa Mejia, the William Cullen Bryant HS “grad” who revealed in Sunday’s Post that she’d been awarded a fraudulent diploma.
Well, the whole city except for the insiders who conduct (or just wink at) such fraud all across New York’s schools system.”
By Aaron Short
New York Post
“New York City high school graduates who enroll at CUNY often aren’t ready for college, according to data showing the rising number of freshmen in need of remedial help.
An astonishing 78.3 percent of CUNY community college students who graduated from city high schools in 2014 enrolled in remedial courses this past school year, up from 77.6 percent the year before.”
By Carl Campanile
New York Post
“Two-thirds of New Yorkers say student results on Common Core exams should be used to rate teachers, according to a poll released Monday.
Of the 67 percent of voters who support linking test results to teacher evaluations, 39 percent said the results should count for 25 percent of an educator’s score, 19 percent it should cover half the grade and 9 percent said it should count more than 50 percent, the Sienna College Poll found.”