State Education Department
NYC attendance crisis proves the DOE and UFT don’t care if kids learn
If you don't care whether children come to class, you don't care if they learn at all — and that's what New York City's regular public-school system has come to.
Let the Massapequa Chiefs keep their name
Memo to the stick-in-the-mud Karens at the State Education Department: Let Massapequa High School keep on being the "Chiefs."
Native Americans join Trump's rally to save Long Island high school from NYS-ordered rebranding
It's becoming their chief concern.
State Ed's defiance of Trump's end-DEI demand is proof that agency leaders don't care about students
Notice how they fall back on the supposed goal, rather than confronting how DEI actually works.
NY's DOE prepares for showdown with Trump admin after rejecting order to scrap DEI — despite threats to pull funding
New York schools are preparing for an education showdown with President Trump, after rejecting Friday the administration's calls to scrap DEI policies — despite threats to pull federal funding.
Fresh proof New York's educrats don't care about education
A bombshell Manhattan Institute study on soaring absenteeism in New York schools proves yet again that the state's education officials have utterly given up on educating children.
NY officials defend schools chief Betty Rosa's $155K hush-hush raise by citing her sex, race
The Board of Regents has staunchly defended its decision to give New York’s top schools boss a massive pay bump saying her gender and race played into the decision, with...
NY schools trap our kids in failure — how Trump offers an escape
New York isn’t just squandering money on its poor public schools, it’s squandering kids' lives — but a plan in Congress could force more school choice, despite Albany's reluctance.
NY top school chief's secret $155K raise sparks outrage from GOP pols: 'Unwarranted and offensive'
Conservative state lawmakers urged the board to reconsider the “unwarranted and offensive pay increase” which brought education commissioner and Board of Regents chair Betty Rosa to a whopping $489,000 annual...
NY's top schools chief defends hush-hush $155K raise -- while not mentioning nearly $120K pension
The state's top education leader Betty Rosa defended her massive raise on Wednesday.
Why the state Education Dept. can't police schools that don't teach
As New York City yeshivas return to court amid claims of discrimination by the State Department of Education, we declare our complete lack of faith in the agency’s ability to...
How lavish benefits pushed by NY teachers' unions ramped up school spending -- to highest in nation at $36K per kid: reports
New York's lavish pay, pension and health care plans pushed for by powerful teachers' unions helped ramp up spending on school districts to a staggering $89 billion.
NY teachers unions pump school spending to highest in the nation at $36K per kid — yet they rank low in reading and math: report
New York funnels more money into its schools than any state in the nation — with only mediocre results to show for it, a withering report released Friday reveals.
To help NY's kids, Team Trump needs to probe the State Education Department
When Team Trump takes office, here's hoping they — maybe with some help from Congress — have time to investigate the persistent, willful malfeasance of New York's State Education Department.
NY school brass are set to let even unprepared kids graduate high school
On Monday, the State Education Department presented its timeline for ditching the Regents exams; the Regents Board is now expected to green-light it.
NYS Board of Regents' latest assault on education
This week, the state Board of Regents continued its assault on New York education by pushing the teaching of revisionist DEI history ahead of America’s 250th anniversary celebration.
NY State Ed's pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We'll stop tracking it
For years now, we've been slamming the State Education Department and its rulers, the state Board of Regents, as having turned against anything resembling excellence, but we're still shocked at...
New York's latest test scores show why families are fleeing the public schools
It's easy to see why the State Education Department stalled on releasing the latest English and math test scores for grades 3-8, and why New Yorkers won't get the final...
Tim Walz hit with House subpoena for records on $250M Minn. COVID fraud
Walz, 60, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was ordered to hand over any documents about the scandal, which involved pandemic relief funds being distributed via "the Minnesota Department of Education’s...
End the State Education Department's test-scores charade
Once again, the State Education Department and its Board of Regents masters are doing their level best to make a new year’s reading and math assessments as useless as possible.