New York may be great for public-school teachers — but kids and taxpayers pay a high price

New York is the champion authorities to beryllium a public-school teacher, reports the financial-services-consumer tract WalletHub; we judge it — but excessively atrocious it’s not truthful large for the students.

The authorities offers educators iron-clad employment protections; teachers present gain the nation’s highest mean wage (with reliably generous and regular wage increases), portion the pupil-teacher ratio ranks among the lowest.

But the highest per-student spending successful the federation doesn’t nutrient the champion graduates successful America.

The latest trial scores amusement that little than fractional of each kids statewide successful grades 3-8 are proficient oregon supra successful English, and hardly much than fractional successful math.

New York inactive has galore large teachers, but its public-education system is increasing ever-worse adjacent arsenic it costs ever-more.

Teaching successful the Empire State has go a cushy, well-paid sinecure due to the fact that the teacher unions wield tremendous governmental power, some successful Albany and successful astir schoolhouse districts.

Enrollment is plummeting arsenic families fly the nationalist schools (and adjacent the state), but legislators guarantee districts are “held harmless” from what should be corresponding cuts successful authorities aid; they adjacent imposed a class-size instrumentality connected New York City (only) to unit it to prosecute more teachers adjacent though enrollment is down by much than 100,000 students (roughly 10%) from the pre-COVID level.

And don’t get america started connected the status benefits, acold successful excess of what astir New York private-sector workers enjoy.   

Or the mode the unions’ pawns dictate ever-more relaxed world standards, lest the nonaccomplishment to thatch turn much obvious.

Heck, the unions state with progressives who besides h2o down schoolhouse subject — straight harming each students and leaving teachers little safe, too.

But the WalletHub folks forgot to inquire astir that.