NYC Public School Parents: The Real Deal on Morris High School & Bloomberg’s Failed Education Policies

NYC Public School Parents: The Real Deal on Morris High School & Bloomberg’s Failed Education Policies:

The Real Deal on Morris High School & Bloomberg’s Failed Education Policies

by Leonie Haimson

As Bloomberg is giving his State of the City address today at Morris HS...

Claim: Bloomberg likes to contrast the graduation rate at the old Morris HS to graduation rates at the high schools currently housed in the building, as evidence of the success of his education policies.

Reality: The types of students enrolled at the old and new Morris campus are very different. Of the students enrolled in the four schools currently housed in the Morris building, only 1.7% are in self-contained special education classes– revealing their higher level of need, compared to 14% of students enrolled in the old Morris HS in 2001-02.[1] Also, dividing up the building has caused its own problems; for example, according to a teacher at one of these schools, there is no longer any librarian and the library is completely unutilized: “Lots of books with no one tending to them