First, the good news via the Wall Street Journal: New York City’s four-year graduation rate reached an all time high of 65 percent in 2010. Now, the bad news: The majority of them are still not ready for college. Even worse news: Apart from the dummy enclaves of Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester, the rest of the state boasts an graduation rate of over 80 percent.
It’s not often that the NYC school system declares a snow day, its only happened seven times since 1978, but after last night’s dumping of up to 19 inches, Chancellor Cathleen Black did just that. Tens of thousands of students were given the day off and won’t have to attend classes or more importantly, take the Regents Exam… until June. Lucky them.
Just to be clear, this is a riot, this on the other hand, is just kids acting a little crazy.
The city is paying out $55k to settle a Queens teenager’s lawsuit alleging he was left with a bleeding head wound when a school security guard kicked in his bathroom stall without warning or reason. 16-year-old Stephen Cruz claims high school “safety agent” Daniel O’Connell busted open the door last year, opening a bloody gash in his forehead, saying, “That’s life; it will stop bleeding,” and abandoning the teenage victim. O’Connell, also known as RoboCop, has not been disciplined, only transferred to a nearby middle school of younger, more fragile students. |Gotham Schools|
Although 10 of city’s 1,200 public high schools did make the overall cut for the list of the top 1,300 in the nation, none placed in the top 100. However, three exceptional high schools did make “The Public Elites” list: Stuyvesant High School (Manhattan), Bronx High School of Science (Bronx), and Hunter College High School (Manhattan). The High School for Arts and Business in Queens fared the best on the main list, ranking no. 219. |Newsweek via NYSun|
Editor-in-Chief:
