Half Of NYers Say Bloomberg Hasn't Improved Schools

The polls are really not being nice to Mayor Bloomberg today. Though he once said improving the city's schools was his top priority, a new poll says 49% of New Yorkers believe he failed in doing that. But we thought graduation rates were grea—Oh. Right.

One parent said she believed Bloomberg "failed" in his mission to improve public schools because of "the latest information about the test scores." Test scores were down because officials toughened standards, since the City Council called the last round of math scores were "not acceptable." Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti defended the Mayor to the Daily News, saying, "Our students continue to make consistent, significant gains and outpace their counterparts throughout New York State and other urban areas around the nation." That is, if you take into account rises in suspensions and graduating 21-year-old delinquents.

Though New Yorkers say Bloomberg hasn't delivered on public schools, 66% said charter schools, which have expanded under Bloomberg's tenure, are "a good thing because they give more choices to parents and kids." Plus, kids can earn some extra cash on the side doing recruitment work.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on September 7, 2010 4:30 PM

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Novelette

Bloomberg!!!! r u serious? Budget cuts- how when u dismissed (3) Pupils off the school bus when the other (6) gets on lives in the same block Radius of 1.25 miles from the school & lives in the same households! What about their safety & as 4 ur Budget Cut, ha! Ur spending $$$ for the Metro cards you give them 4 MTA. Give up ur Mayor privileges, Also Put all the child Rapist on 1 Island. So the Parents that are afraid 4 their 7th and 8th graders are not @ risk with having so many living right next door,down the street or around the corner. Tired of seeing their FACES when I take my children to the park! It's scary and my 7th grader is afraid. I understand way back when I was going to school I've walked with friends or my parents drove us. Now it's different and even more dangerous. It might have been dangerous back than but now it's right in front up close and personal! Something has to be done 4 our childrens safetiness.

blink

The only thing little queen has improved is the bank accounts of real estate developers and his own wealth.

John Clavis

The richest 1% needed public education to turn the rest of us into useful workers. Now that they no longer hire American, they no longer feel the need to support public services like schools. Charter schools and private schools and "homeschooling" - aka no schooling at all - will eventually be all that's left... and charter schools really only last until the big investors get a return and pull out. Two classes; two tiers. Welcome to the New Gilded Age, bitches!

John L

Test scores are down and crime is up.

Time to get rid of Joel Klein & Ray Kelly.

I don't get how Bloomberg got so rich, what kind of manager is he? I'm sure that when an employee in his private company wasn't doing their job correctly or meeting their goals he'd fire them and bring in somebody new. So why does he keep these guys who just keep failing?

mo

there are so many dropouts in the high schools here it is not funny.kids don't want to go to schools that are unsafe where gangs run the place and your class romm time is alway being disrupted by kids who don't want to be there and all they do is cause trouble.in many high schools you can't even go out for lunch anymore because some kids have caused trouble in stores around the schools now everyone gets punished because of it .