Traditional public schools were assigned higher grades than charter schools for the first time on New York City school report cards - NYPOST.com

Traditional public schools were assigned higher grades than charter schools for the first time on New York City school report cards - NYPOST.com

Grade shock: Regular schools top charters

By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter

Last Updated: 7:27 AM, October 1, 2010

Posted: 2:45 AM, October 1, 2010

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City charters fell harder.

Traditional public schools bested the city's charter schools on annual report-card grades for the first time -- 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+.

SOURCE: CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

"This means that either the strategy Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor [Joel] Klein have touted so often for school reform -- the creation of more charter schools -- isn't working, or that the entire progress-report methodology, which relies almost completely on

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