‘CLASS’ CLOWN BLASIO

Sunday’s report in The Post that Mayor de Blasio’s Education Department is counting on failed and tainted educrats to oversee the lowest-performing schools answers forever the question of whether City Hall cares about helping poor students. No, no, no — a thousand times no. It’s all about the care and feeding of adults who belong to unions. The report confirms that the plan to fix 94 struggling schools, at a cost of nearly $1 billion extra, is doomed by the same mind-set and incompetence that ruined those schools in the first place. Most should have been closed after years of failure, but de Blasio was determined to reverse just about everything done by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomy’s policy was to close failing schools after a reasonable period, shake up the staff and reopen them with new leadership. He also supported charter schools.

De Blasio insisted that was cruel, and vowed to spend more money on teachers and services as a sign of compassion to keep the schools open. And he fights charters tooth and nail.

After three years, his ideas have been a bust, costing a colossal amount of money and precious years for the children who are trapped.

On top of the earlier Post report that some of those struggling schools are losing students because parents found better options, the evidence that many of the supervisors are duds ends any hope of progress.

Among them are teachers who faced charges of racial and sexual misconduct, but whose job was spared in disciplinary hearings. Naturally, they are effectively promoted to guide the kids who need the most help.

This is not education. This is a scandal.