State Adds to List of N.y.c.'s Low-Performing Schools

By Kerry A. White

New York state's annual compilation of its lowest-performing schools places nearly 10 percent of New York City's schools at risk of being shut down, prompting criticism that too many city schools are being left behind.

The list, unveiled Nov. 13, showed that while 18 New York City schools on last year's list had improved enough to move off this year's, some 21 new city schools were identified as failing.

The latest tally brings the city's total number of failing schools to 97, out of about 1,100 schools there, the...