A whole lot more this morning on upclose. 1. 1 million students, 1,800 schools, scores of languages spoken, and an annual budget of nearly 25 billion bigger than the budgets of half the states in the country. The new York City Schools, a huge and complicated enterprise, its product arguably the most important that there is the education of our young people. Chancellor carmen faria, now ending her second full year in the job, joins us. Chancellor, welcome. Thank you. I said it was complicated, but you basically say this is simple at its core, right . It is. I think the most important thing that educators know about education and that everything that really needs to happen happens in the classroom. So the most important thing that we do as educators is make sure that we have the best teachers, the best curriculum possible, and also the best principals who will supervise those teachers. So, to me, if you look at those three elements and you make sure that thats done properly, the rest is
While many teachers and advocates support a shift away from exit exams, which remain in use in just nine states, others raised concerns it could open the floodgates to diminished expectations, leaving graduates unprepared for college and the workforce.
New York state is poised to toss aside its proud history of expecting achievement from its high school students by eliminating the Regents exams that, for more than a century, have been required to earn a diploma.
The New York State Education Department proposed Monday ending a requirement that students pass Regents exams to earn a high school diploma, as part of the most sweeping overhaul of public school graduation measures in decades.