Steve's Barking: There are no reforms in the New York City Education Department

There are no reforms in the New York City Education Department.
There never will be any reforms as long as we don't think of students as individuals with individual needs some faster and some slower.
Special Ed is a doomed 60 year experiment, especially when the student in special ed feels inferior,  and schools make money by having it.
We the public blame teachers for being over paid, when the truth be told most of the money government gives to education  goes to the bureaucracy.
Many a proponent of school reforms talk of standardize testing, when time, and time again shows that standardize testing is a root cause of cheating. Is that what the new reformers want, a way to show young people that it's alright to cheat?
What's with parochial schools? Why do they seem to have better graduation rate and college bound then the normal school system, Maybe we would be better off encouraging them, instead of discouraging them. Wouldn't that help with the over crowding in NYC Schools, and wouldn't it be cheaper then giving more money to the city school systems bureaucracy.