Hey Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Public Schools, it seems that the test scores for 2025 published today don’t include students in temporary housing. Am I missing something?

Always be reading Charles Fain Lehman.

In FT, John Burn-Murdoch points the finger at the online world as a possible cause of declining conscientiousness. The theory that online interactions are causing problems gets harder and harder to ignore. I agree with Burn-Murdoch in UnHerd today.

This is embarrassing. NYS taxpayers spend > $30K per pupil (the highest of any state). The Education Department keeps lowering the goalposts on standardized testing. Yet barely half its children kids are "proficient" in math and reading

Headlines like these are why the state Education Department keeps lowering the passing scores on its standardized tests

Good for Kathleen Moore and the Times Union for putting these supposedly improved results in their proper context timesunion.com/education/arti…

It's bad that Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because he didn't like the employment data. By repeatedly massaging its test results to make things look rosier, the NYS Education Department is doing much the same thing timesunion.com/education/arti…

Retired NYPD re: Albany.

The federal government recently updated its hospital quality ratings, and NY once again fell near the bottom. Its hospitals received an average grade of 2.5 out of 5 stars, which ranked 48th out of the 50 states

A bookmark if there ever was one. The bulk of violent crime is concentrated in poor, non-white neighborhoods. Yet most recent criminal justice “reforms” in states like NY have aimed to ease up on enforcement and go easier on perpetrators. With predictable results.

🧵This morning's The New York Times editorial on crime is really remarkable in that it seems to reflect really genuine shifts on the editorial board with respect to policing and public safety. Consider the following excerpts:

New post: New York's Hospital Quality Remains Among the Worst in the U.S.

New York doesn't allow for-profit hospitals.

Eric Adams wants New York to join 36 other states and DC in allowing compelled treatment for people with severe drug addictions. He's got the right idea. My latest in NY Post Opinion:

Millions with serious mental illness can’t get needed inpatient care because of Medicaid’s outdated “IMD exclusion.” In my new Manhattan Institute report, I outline a path to increase access: repeal or allow Medicaid coverage for care at psychiatric hospitals with ≤108 beds. 🧵

This is Schumeresque attention-seeking. NYS utility rates reflect hidden taxes and "policy" spending: things that utilities are required to spend money on (in part by the Legislature!) and then prohibited from showing on bills.

A major study into the effects of Universal Basic Income (UBI) predicted that giving people $1,000 a month would have a big impact on their finances. They were right … just not in the way they hoped. kiteandkeymedia.com/videos/univers…

A pernicious lie about rent stabilized housing is that the 2019 rent laws were necessary to end “speculation” and , that was the reason rents were rising. So instead the buildings needed to be devalued to remove all threats to the renters in them. But it’s just about the exact