City clears self in bizarre test spike - NYPOST.com:
"The probe of a Bronx elementary school's sudden, unprecedented, one-year gain in reading scores found no evidence of cheating -- but critics are blasting the drawn-out investigation as a 'sham.'
The three-year probe by the city's Department of Education looked at the roller-coasterlike passing rate for fourth-graders at PS 33 in Fordham, which catapulted from 34 percent in 2004 to 83 percent in 2005 before plunging back down to 42 percent in 2006.
The school was heralded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the time as a model of the city's dramatic test gains."
"The probe of a Bronx elementary school's sudden, unprecedented, one-year gain in reading scores found no evidence of cheating -- but critics are blasting the drawn-out investigation as a 'sham.'
The three-year probe by the city's Department of Education looked at the roller-coasterlike passing rate for fourth-graders at PS 33 in Fordham, which catapulted from 34 percent in 2004 to 83 percent in 2005 before plunging back down to 42 percent in 2006.
The school was heralded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the time as a model of the city's dramatic test gains."
