Gothamist | Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos Monday, during the annual “state of our schools” address, touted the strides that the city’s public school system has made under her leadership, including increases in reading and math scores on the most recent state tests and positive reviews from a recent principal survey.

While the Adams administration has been dogged by corruption allegations, education experts have called his literacy overhaul a bright spot. The administration has been at the forefront of a movement to align reading instruction with the research on what works best for students, including a focus on phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. The rollout has been bumpy at times, but advocates and experts have said the city is on the right track.

“We definitely want to see the shifts around curriculum stay,” said Sarah Part, senior policy analyst at Advocates for Children of New York. She said the effort to reform literacy instruction must be given a long runway to net results. “We were clear from the beginning this had to be long term,” she said.