City educrats won’t be ready to submit required plans for improving 250 struggling schools during the current school year until Dec. 31 — nearly halfway into the academic year, The Post has learned.
Included among the low-performing schools currently working without a final road map are 94 bottom-dwellers that Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña identified on Monday as an urgent priority.
The State Education Department is mulling whether to OK the city’s second request to push back the deadline for filing “Comprehensive Education Plans,” initially due this past summer.
After earlier getting an extension to this Friday, city Department of Education officials said in a letter this week that their proposal won’t be ready until four months into the school year.
“It feels like this is a lost school year for the kids,” said one ex-DOE official.
But current DOE officials dispute that charge — saying preliminary plans that were submitted this summer are already being implemented.
They say they have been in constant contact with state officials and have involved principals in every step of the planning process.
“These plans will be aligned with the chancellor’s recently announced accountability measures to ensure our schools are held to high standards and deliver higher student outcomes,” said DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye.
State officials said they’re holding back on allocating several hundred million dollars in federal funds until the plans are finalized.
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