New York City's charter schools
GRADE SHOCK: REGULAR SCHOOLS TOP CHARTERS, October 1, 2010, New York Post
…Traditional public schools bested the city's charter schools on annual report-card grades -- scoring 10 points higher on average on a 100-point scale, new data shows.
The city's more than 1,000 public elementary and middle schools averaged a B on their so-called "progress reports," which assign letter grades to schools based largely on how much students improve on state math and reading tests in a given year.
By comparison, the city's 60 charter schools that received letter grades this year averaged a C+.
"This means that either the strategy Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor [Joel] Klein have touted s