Nearly half of NYC DOE grads at CUNY need remedial classes...and that's the ones who go on to college. What is it for those others

Nearly half of NYC DOE grads at CUNY need remedial classes

By 

Georgia Worrell, 

 

Susan Edelman, 

 

Mary Kay Linge, 

 

Rich Calder and 

Jacob Geanous

February 25, 2023 9:33am

 Updated

Nearly half of all New York City public school graduates who head to local community colleges are  forced into remedial classes to survive their first semester, troubling new data obtained by The Post reveal. 

Amid chronic absenteeism, widespread grade inflation, and a failure to prepare students for higher education, city school kids are being shoved through an educational revolving door without truly learning, experts told The Post.

“Most of the kids we get from New York City schools are underprepared for college,”  said Mohammad Alam, assistant dean of enrollment at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

In Fall 2022 across the City University of New York’s seven community colleges, 5,046 former Department of Education students were enrolled in a remedial math course, while 4,250 had to take remedial English — 47% of all new DOE high school graduates, a CUNY spokesperson said.

The lack of readiness for college work leaves students, some now parents themselves, frustrated — and angry.