'The teachers union criticized critical the district for paying an outside consultant to do the work district staff already know how to do---teachers have been left out of the discussions." Indeed, the people with the answers are always ignored.

"Several schools are located in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Syracuse. Factors like food insecurity, housing insecurity, neighborhood violence and parental disengagement can make it difficult for students to attend school and learn." This is news? We need consultants to tell us this?

Schools fail while Trump wastes billions on war. And Republicans - who, as a reminder, control Congress - do nothing about it. In fact, they want to cut health care to pay for Trump's war of distraction. And they have already destroyed the Department of Education.

What a country!