SI Live – Diane C. Lore
“When it comes to providing adequate physical education programs for every student in the city’s public school system, the Department of Education (DOE) is severely out of shape, the city comptroller says. The DOE is in violation of state physical education (PE) requirements and is failing to provide students with equal access to physical education resources, according to an interactive, school-by-school analysis released Tuesday by City Comptroller Scott Stringer. According to the report, nearly half of all Staten Island schools throughout the borough lacked a full-time PE teacher.”(more)