Despite the lack of hard data on the effectiveness of year-round schooling in the city, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has once again touted the benefits of his statewide proposal, which many view as a policy peg for a potential run for governor, NY1 reports.
The outgoing mayor has unveiled his year-round public school programming proposal on his revamped political website.
When NY1 political anchor Errol Louis, on Monday during their weekly “Mondays with the Mayor interview,” pressed the mayor for hard data on the effectiveness of the city’s attempt this past summer, de Blasio said collecting and analyzing the information this early on remains difficult.
“We’re only a couple of months into the school year,” de Blasio said. “In terms of hard facts, I think it’s hard to measure because of all the disruption. We’ll get a good sense in the course of the school year the difference between the kids that were in that program and the kids who were not. But it’s no question to me about the value added so far.”
Earlier this year, New York City rolled out “Summer Rising,” a free program combining academics and recreation, which saw hundreds of thousands of children sign up.
According to de Blasio’s team, offering such a program on a statewide level would cost about $5.4 billion and would be paid for by taxing the state’s wealthiest residents.
In lieu of hard data, the mayor in his interview Monday pointed to the city’s implementation of universal pre-k and 3-k as success stories.
“Two things where the jury is definitely back: pre-k and 3-k. I think there is a strong educational consensus that those are pieces of the puzzle that truly elevate students’ learning later in life,” de Blasio told NY1. “Longer school day with an academic component — I don’t think there’s a lot of debate.”
The mayor went on to claim the benefits of year-round public school programming extend beyond academics. Providing free after-school and summer programs would relieve parents of the financial burden of sending their children to expensive camps and other forms of child care, de Blasio said.
De Blasio, who is term-limited and will leave office at the end of the year, has been widely rumored to be readying a run for governor, after filing paperwork earlier this month with the state Board of Elections to create a fundraising committee. Read more at NY1.
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I used to think de Blasio was just an awful mayor who is totally out of touch with reality (see his delusional presidential campaign). Now after his despicable remarks re: the Rittenhouse verdict, we see he a loathsome, disgusting person, too. Good riddance to this odious individual and good luck to Mayor-elect Adams with undoing the grievous damage eight years of increasing crime and lawlessness de Blasio’s neglect has foisted on the city.
just leave already!!! Any so called official whose term is expiring within a month should no longer have any power. They become more and more dictatorial.
DeBlabla wants to curry favor with the far left Karen woke crowd. Good luck. They hate his guts as well. What a doofus.
If it’s combining academics and recreation why is that bad ? Many of these kids drie the streets and get adversely affected. Structure is a good thing. I hate liberals too. But why is this a bad idea ? I think it’s great.
One has to ask just what “academics” and just what “recreation” will this be? They have already done away with special programs for gifted students who can excel faster and provide more return to society faster. So what will this be? It is a lot easier to sneak such abominations as the premises for “Critical Race Theory” and gender “transitioning” during nominally “voluntary” classes and events which are more unstructured than, and have even less oversite, than class time.
You got it. Plus it comes with a 6B pricetag, so he can give some no show jobs to his friends and relatives
In all the news in the last few months there’s one thing in common. They’re desperate for the public to revolt against their corrupt governments.