With Tuesday’s insipid “State of Our Schools” address, Chancellor David Banks proved himself profoundly unserious about teaching the city’s kids.
The only metrics he cited in his hour-long remarks were: 1) 1,000 schools are participating in a climate-change program, and 2) the city Department of Education has registered 85,000 high schoolers and adults to vote in November.
No numbers on academic achievements — not test scores, proficiency rates or even grade-point averages.
No word on how his vaunted NYC Reads and NYC Solves initiatives are (or aren’t) getting public-school kids on the right track in literacy and math.
Nor even a mention of the truancy rates that soared in the wake of the pandemic school closures.
He didn’t touch at all on the hard reality of education in the Big Apple, instead offering such platitudes as “Public schools are the foundation of both this city and our…
