The New York Post has an article that details the bloated Bureaucracy that runs the Renewal school program. Astonishingly the DOE pays $12.7 million dollars annually for questionable administrative support with little or no significant impact upon the students and the classroom. The "college and career readiness" rates are stuck in the low teens.
Lead by Chancellor Carmen Farina's hack, Amiee Horowitz who I have written about previously Here, Here, and Here, the Renewal schools have been a disaster, with many of them losing students, have low attendance rates, and poor academic results.
Teachers who are unfortunate enough to work in these Renewal schools are under tremendous stress as these bureaucrats demand accountability while not being held accountable themselves. Teachers have no real prep periods as they are required to meet and plan with colleagues and are pressured to work an extra period whether they want to or not. Class sizes have risen, despite the loss of students as the Renewal schools continue to lose or excess teachers. How these Renewal schools can attract academically achieving students and quality teachers is beyond comprehension as the Renewal Bureaucracy sucks up scarce resources while providing little in the way of classroom improvements to the"high needs" student populations of the Renewal schools.
Reading the New York Post article about the bloated Bureaucracy does not surprise me one bit the schools are destined to fail unless they can attract better students and teachers and not blow money on their bloated Bureaucracy as they continue to do.