Richard Carranza, the latest chancellor of the New York City Department of Education (DOE), has announced his desire to see an increase of $17 billion for the schools over a four-year period, F.Y. 2020-2024.  That's right: "billion."  These additional funds will go to pay for greater accessibility for disabled students, building thousands of new classrooms (many students find themselves today in temporary classrooms in trailers), air conditioning of all classrooms, and enhanced bandwidth technology and technology software for use in the classrooms. We must wonder why New Yorkers now need a $17-billion school building program.  Could this be connected to the failed policies of the previous NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and his schools chancellor, Joel Klein?  They systematically closed so-called failing high schools and turned those properties into three or four academy schools.  Those closures were based on the New...(Read Full Article)