Schools
City Warns of Low Test Scores From NYC Students
Chancellor blames anticipated drop on test difficulty.
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott warned that anticipated state test results for New York City students could be as much as 30 percent lower than scores in the previous year, the New York Daily News wrote this week.
Walcott reportedly said that student scores in reading and math will show a sharp drop because the difficulty of the test increased in 2012.
Michael Mulrgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said the scores indicated that Bloomberg's educational policies had failed city students for more than a decade.
"This week we are going to see that a decade of test prep — rather than real learning — has left New York City school children far behind where they should be. That is not "politicizing" the issue. That's reality," Mulgrew said.
"Mayor Bloomberg could have changed course years ago. He didn't. And he ignored the pleas of parents and teachers who said we were headed in the wrong direction."
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"Mayor Bloomberg and his Tweed cronies have been cooking the books on student test scores for 12 years," Liu said. "Mayor Bloomberg had 12 years to advance his so-called reforms and pad his educational legacy. He failed. He cannot spin these results to mean something they don’t. New York City’s children deserve better."
Official scores will be released by the Department of Education this week.
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