I hope that once Team Trump takes office, they will have time to investigate the persistent and deliberate misconduct of the New York State Department of Education, perhaps with help from Congress.
Given the amount of money Uncle Sam spends on New York education, federal officials are certainly holding their ground and trying to hide basic information from parents and the public, as evidenced by last week's Freedom of Information on so-called state assessments. A good place to start is with SED's notable efforts to address this issue. Tests for grades 3 through 8.
The children took the exam in April and May. Because the machines can score quickly, SED was releasing results over the summer.
But in recent years, educators have been delaying the release. This year they published the final results November 14th.
As a government monitoring agency Empire Center pointed outthis is the third year in a row that SED did not delete data until quite some time ago. Next School year.
Furthermore, previously, partial rollouts to schools were too slow and the data was not very useful.
And the “final” release was in a format that made it difficult to compare regular public school results with public school results, for example. charter school.
Educators did their best to make test results inaccessible, much less understandable, to parents and the public.
Empire Center has far fewer resources than SED and allows you to search data by school, district, county, and school type.
Still, the SED continues to change what counts as “proficiency,” making it difficult to compare scores to past years.
Of course, the SED and its state board masters are basically dislike Standardized tests are in large part because they can provide parents and the general public with independent information about the quality of schools and the (poor) state of public education in New York.
SED chief JP O'Hare had the audacity to claim that the department released preliminary individual student test scores in August. Programming, educational services, and parent engagementExample: “Provide information to the conversation” [parents can have] “Talk to your child’s teacher about your child’s progress in grade level” — but by August, your child has already moved up one grade.
Despite the watered-down scoring standards (again), less than half of all students in grades 3 through 8 across the state achieved proficiency or better in English, and less than half of them achieved proficiency or better in math. It wasn't that good either.
New York public school spending is well above $35 billion Annually (approximately $30,000 per student), it leads the nation in “input” despite only moderate results.
Fed up families are moving from regular public schools to private schools, charter schools, and even homeschooling.
And the Democratic scalawags who control the state Legislature will never look into this. they are them who Choose a regent and tell the SED what to do.
So it may be the Trump campaign or perhaps the Republican Congress that will stand up for New York's children. Everyone, please send help!
