Despite not being able to speak English or count to ten.
Via FreeBeacon:
Thousands of students in New York City schools are failing to meet math and English proficiency but they will learn to be “environmental stewards” as a result of a major school investment in solar panels announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio. As calls mount this week for de Blasio to reform the city’s failing school system, the mayor announced the investment of $23 million in city funds for solar panels at some city schools.
In a report issued last week, Families for Excellent Schools detailed the city’s problems. In 2013, less than 10 percent of students met academic standards in the city’s 257 elementary schools. In 2014, 87 of those schools failed to improve 1 percentage point. Of 925 schools surveyed, only 46 had an average proficiency rate in math and English above 50 percent. Additionally, 185 schools had proficiency rates below 10 percent.
Only five percent, or 46, of the schools which are Title I schools, which are designated federally as “high poverty,” are delivering a quality education by achieving more than 50 percent proficiency with their underserved student populations. The small number of successful schools, FES pointed out, are public charter schools.