“Let’s be honest about what this policy means in practice. Families who fought to get their kids into higher-performing schools are now being told: Sorry, no room. Try a school with smaller classes — but worse results. That’s not equity. That’s redistribution by lottery. And it exposes an uncomfortable fact: shrinking class size is not a silver bullet for academic achievement.”
Read the full op-ed: https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/12/a-feel-good-school-law-collides-with-reality/