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Today, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Klein released the "first-ever" public school progress reports with letter grades. The reports are meant to give educators and parents a snapshot of how well schools are doing and empower them to keep improving. Mayor Bloomberg said, "With these Progress Reports, parents no longer have to navigate a maze of statistics to determine how their child's school is doing and how it compares to others. And our educators now have a new tool to help them see exactly where their school needs improvement and find similar schools that could help them do it.”
Of the 1,224 elementary, middle and high schools surveyed, 23% received A's, 38% received B's, 25% received C's, 8% received D's, and 4% received F's. And the grades are a controversial topic - and in fact, one principal is trying to fight the B his school got. For instance, magnet high schools Stuyvesant and Bronx Science got A's, but Brooklyn Tech's grade is "Under Review."
The Daily News' Errol Louis likes the report cards, Diane Ravitch doesn't and Inside Schools explains what the different components, from the grade to other factors like "student progress," mean. You can download the Excel file of grades here (XLS).
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These letter grades bear no relation to reality.
Along with the letters grades, they should break down each of the school's student population by race.
brooklyn tech is full of niggas.zoned in from the community.
A good portion of this data was no doubt based on standardized test performance data, which is just how stupid politicians pretend they are fixing the problem instead of actually fixing it - think of rubbish legislation like No Child Left Behind. In fact they cause more problems since the kids will get taught for the test instead of the things they really need to learn. Brilliant!
It would be interesting to find out how much the standardized test lobby has spent in Albany and other state capitals along with Washington.
Still these grades are more political rubbish designed to make it look like the city is actually doing something while releasing things in an easily markable package that TV stations and newspapers can create cute little graphics for.
Is there any rating system out there for child care?
The results look like interesting bits of fiction. I would have expected the schools scores to come down more like a bell curve. hmmm.
These scores are not like reality at all. Is there any thinking person that would actually buy these statistics?
Brooklyn Tech used to be dominated by "niggas", but not anymore.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/470593567.html
Basketball Player, Police Officer, MTA workers, Lunch Ladies, Nurses, Sanitiation workers.
And last but CERTAINLY not least,occupations with a Caucasian boss, so they can play the race card and sue the cracka.
^ *I listed 90% of the profession black people hold in NYC.