Educational Malpractice

ack in 2014, Mayor de Blasio vowed that his Renewal Schools program would “shake the foundations of New York City education.” Count that as one more broken promise.

The original 94 Renewal schools were all failures, with terrible test scores and falling enrollment. But rather than shut them down and open new schools in their buildings (the Bloomberg approach), de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña aimed to turn them around.

They spent hundreds of millions on consultants and new resources in this effort, yet three years later, they’ve still had to close 27 of them — with the last nine shutdowns announced this week.

Yet de Blasio and Fariña aren’t even closing the worst Renewals. Among the failure factories that will remain are:

Wadleigh Secondary School. For three straight years, not one of its kids has scored at grade level in math. Students scoring at the lowest level are up from 63 percent in 2015-16 to 74 percent in 2016-17.

PS 112 Bronxwood is the lowest performing Renewal in English: Just 5.5 percent of its kids scored at grade level and 53 percent scored at the bottom level.

MS 301 Paul L. Dunbar is the third-lowest-performing Renewal in English, with only 8.3 percent of students scoring at grade level and 54.1 percent in the lowest level.

In all, 46 of the original 94 Renewals will stay in the program for at least another year. Another 21 will “graduate” out — merely because they met laughably low benchmarks for improvement. That’s a scandal in itself.

By any measure, Renewal has failed to “shake the foundations” of anything. Yet Fariña says she only intends to “kind of tweak” the program a bit. Which means it’s going to keep on denying thousands of children any hope of a decent education.

For shame.