Parent Members Challenge Mayor de Blasio to Fix Zero Pass Rate Crisis
StudentsFirstNY // August 25, 2014Analysis of Test Scores Shows 75 NYC District Schools Had 0% of Students in a Grade Pass Math or ELA Exams
Analysis of Test Scores Shows 75 NYC District Schools Had 0% of Students in a Grade Pass Math or ELA Exams
The big news this year is that once again New York City continues to set the pace for all cities across the state. After 12 years of an ambitious reform agenda, New York City schools are nearly tracking the rest of the state.
It's unfortunate that a candidate for governor would resort to a cheap political stunt on an issue as important as raising standards for New York schools.
It is surprising that the Department of Education would celebrate the return of 1,100 ineffective teachers back into the classrooms of our most vulnerable children. Semantic games aside, a world-class school system is not built on a foundation that gives preferential treatment to the lowest-performing teachers.
