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When will taxpayers revolt over the obscene tragedy of NYC schools?
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Jeff Bezos’ pointed remarks this week about the city Department of Education’s horrific dysfunction only begin to describe the epic waste.
“If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take six weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it,” Bezos thundered Thursday.
Indeed. A recent Citizens Budget Commission report details the grotesquery: New York City now spends $43 billion a year on the regular public schools, amid plummeting enrollment, stagnating test scores and chronic absenteeism.
That’s more than most states spend on public schools, and amounts to a nation-leading $44,000 per child, for a mediocre-at-best........