THE STATE EDUCATON DEPARTMENT....AGAIN......

As we continue to report and analyze the state K-8 test results released this week, we’re all too aware that the folks releasing them would much rather no one could make any use of the information.  Most of the “stakeholders” in New York public education would rather avoid any accountability by keeping everyone in the dark.  The law requires the State Education Department to do the testing and make the results public — but SED’s political masters on the state Board of Regents actually hate standardized testing, and so constantly undermine the entire project. Thus, SED for the second year in a row has delayed until August on going public with results from testing done in the spring — though the actual scoring can’t possibly take more than a few weeks, and past results came out at the start of the summer. MORE AT The State Education Department HATES letting the public learn from test results