New Yorkers can’t agree on anything — except for their disgust with the city’s high-spending, dismal-performing public school system. New Yorkers are giving city schools a failing grade. An overwhelming majority of respondents say that city schools need to increase math and reading scores. kamaz007 – stock.adobe.comThe near universal condemnation comes as city schools are grappling with an enrollment crisis that threatens to eat the education system from within. DOE enrollment has precipitously plunged since COVID, with 12.2 percent fewer students inside public school classrooms today than five years ago.