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Thursday, September 3, 2009

A-mazing Progress Report for NYC Schools | NBC New York


A-mazing Progress Report for NYC Schools NBC New York:

"'Once again today's schools success story is based on the world according to Bloomberg, not the reality that our students are graduating unprepared,' said Thompson. 'Bloomberg would rather inflate these numbers and falsely claim success at the expense of kids being educated.'

Bloomberg's school's czar Joel Klein wisely attempted to put the numbers in their proper context.

'We want to make clear that that reflects that [schools] met their progress targets,' he said. 'It doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that those are schools that don't have a lot of improvement ahead of them.'"