Focus on Education New York City School System:The Dinosaur of Public Schools

Posted on Feb 13 2001

The New York Public School System is the paradigm of everything that is wrong with the public school system. It stands as the premiere example of the factory model schooling that still haunts all public schools both in the U.S. and in the Pacific. the school system has become a symbol of unresponsive bureaucracy that repels all attempts to change. It epitomizes the bureaucracy which demands that orders flow from the top to the bottom with little regard for the ideas or opinions of either its teachers or parents. The school system has an enrollment of about 1,000,000 students.

This dinosaur has nearly 120,000 employees with a budget of approximately 8 billion dollars. It is the largest government agency in the United States outside Washington D.C. In addtion to teachers, it deploys a 3,000 person security force throughout the schools at a budget of $70 million

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