So, they're the state version of the US DOE, eh?

NYC public schools boss says mammoth $41.2B budget ask still isn’t enough — wants ‘hundreds of millions’ more

Two-thirds of the product churned out by the nations’ education factories is illiterate and innumerate. If those were quality control numbers from, say, a shoe factory, a complete overhaul of the process would be conducted, or the factories would be closed; in no way would the managers and top administrators be retained and given huge pay raises instead.