Critics want full accounting of state math and reading exam debacle; commissioner wants to move on
Monday, August 2nd 2010, 4:00 AM
The state should investigate the school test mess, and heads should roll, outraged education reform advocates say.
But the new state education boss wants to move on - saying there's no point in finger-pointing over abysmal reading and math scores released last week for third- through eighth-graders.
"We all bear responsibility for the past," said Commissioner David Steiner. "Rather than go back...and try the impossible 'blame game,' what's crucial is to say, 'We need tests that test effectively.'"
Longtime critics of the state tests were less ready to forget past mistakes.
"If all these things are so bollixed up, why is the state's testing director still on the payroll?" said the Manhattan Institute's Sol Stern, a longtime education advocate. "There
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