Kids lose with Blas status quo-tas

Say this for Mayor de Blasio: He’s deadly serious about playing race games.

Two separate reports have the Department of Education setting quotas for schools. One involves the hiring of nonwhite male teachers, and the other is a setaside for nonwhite students in a Brooklyn Heights district.

Regarding the teachers, The Wall Street Journal reports that the city will spend $16.5 million to recruit and retain 1,000 additional male teachers “of color.” Officials say black, Latino and Asian males now make up 8.3 percent of all teachers, while 43 percent of students fall into those categories.

“The city’s workforce should look like the city,” Deputy Mayor Richard Buery told the paper. What law says that?

On the student quota, The New York Times says that educrats have settled on 5050 racial balance for a rezoning plan that would shift white students from one overcrowded school to another near housing projects that is partially empty. When parents from both groups objected to the initial plan, which had no quotas, the wouldbe Solomons cut the baby in half.

Naturally, nobody is happy. Just as naturally, school officials take that as proof they are right.

The mayor fancies himself a warrior for racial justice, but the reports also are noteworthy for what they don’t discuss. There is nary a word about improving schools or educational excellence.

See, in de Blasio’s dream, all the kids will fail together. That counts as progress among progressives.