New York’s schools are spending more than ever, but student performance keeps falling.
Unsurprisingly, Empire Center’s latest opinion poll shows more than 90% of New Yorkers are unhappy with how education is run. They want better results, less spending, and more choice — something that New York’s educational establishment has resisted for decades.
Here is an out-of-the-box idea: for $37,000 — what educating a single kid in New York’s public schools will cost in 2026-27 — we could send each young New Yorker to a boarding school in Europe.
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