NEW YORK CITY – Despite all of the talk of getting rid of the bad apples in New York City’s classrooms, the latest teacher evaluation overview shows little progress.

“The percentage of teachers who received an ‘unsatisfactory’ this year sits at 2.6 percent – or 2,006 teachers. That’s a blip below the 2,118 teachers – 2.7 percent – who got U-ratings in 2011,” according to the New York Post.

In other words, the city’s United Federation of Teachers union was able to avoid meaningful accountability for its members for another year, a direct result of the union’s reluctance to help develop a new and improved teacher evaluation system with the Department of Education.

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The Post editorial points out the lack of more rigorous evaluations can be traced to the half-hearted efforts of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He inserted himself into the city’s evaluation reform negotiations last year, but crafted a compromise that “still required agreement between local school boards and unions on the details of a plan.”

“And so, again, nothing has changed,” according to the Post.

And nothing will until the United Federation of Teachers decides to do what’s best for students, and the teaching profession in general, and help weed out the underperformers.

The UFT has demonstrated for decades that its top priority is to preserve the jobs of dues-paying members at any cost, and news reports show it will fight for pedophiles, scammers, cheaters and liars, as well as ineffective teachers.

The union must be held liable by the public for failing the city’s children, and for perpetuating a system it knows is subpar and sometimes dangerous for students.

The report is simply concrete evidence that despite the union rhetoric, the system is still rigged, and students are still the losers.