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De Blasio has listened, and is moving to end charter schools’ drain on public funds

142 of NYC schools in its poorest neighborhoods have a 90% flunk rate on state proficiency exams.

A total of 23 schools had at least one entire class where not a single student passed a math or ­English proficiency test given annually to kids in grades 3 to 8.

With many of the city’s lowest-performing schools spending in excess of $30,000 annually per student, Chu called for urgent scrutiny of the Department of ­Education.

“What exactly is being taught in these classrooms?” she asked. “These kids are spending 35 hours a week or so in class. What is that time being used for? What is the curriculum?”

There were 142 schools across the boroughs where more than 90 percent of students failed math or English tests.

At PS/MS 46 Arthur Tappan in ­Harlem, 57 eighth graders sat for the state math exam last year, ­according to state data, and all failed.

At the Academy of Public Relations middle school in The Bronx, 50 students sat for the same eighth-grade math test, and not one was proficient, the numbers show.

But don’t worry:

“We are laser-focused on strengthening instruction, and we’re making gains on more accurate and consistent measures of progress — with record-high high school graduations and college enrollment,” she said.

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