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Queens Teacher: Grade Shock: Regular Schools Top Charters

Queens Teacher: Grade Shock: Regular Schools Top Charters

Grade Shock: Regular Schools Top Charters

Grade shock: Regular schools top charters
By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter


City charters fell harder.

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