Our children are failed by an education system that doesn’t care — and teacher unions are to blame
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New York spends more per student than any state in the nation.
Yet fewer than half off of its third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students scored proficiently on the English Language Arts exam, according to the preliminary data released this week.
Just 43% of third-graders, 48% of fourth-graders and 43% of fifth-graders scored proficient in ELA. The biggest drop was seen in fifth grade, a 14-point decrease from the 2024-25 school year. Third-graders showed an 11-point drop.
This is what happens when teacher unions get their way. Standards are lowered. No consequences for bad schools or bad instructors.
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Jennifer Weber is a fellow for K-12 Education Policy at the Manhattan Institute.Danyela Souza Egorov is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where she focuses on education policy and school choice.