New York City has released report cards on for several charter schools, with the majority receiving A’s and B’s, but one school in Queens getting an F. The grades came more than a month after the city released grades for the rest of its public schools. Officials say they had always intended to release grades for charter schools, but that it had taken longer to make sure the data was complete and accurate because the schools are privately run.
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EARLIER: In the first fallout from New York City's controversial new school report cards, officials have named six schools that will be shut down after earning D’s and F’s. Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein says he plans to close 14 to 20 schools at the end of this school year. But that number would fall far short of the more than 50 schools that earned F’s, and of the approximately 100 that received D’s on the report cards.
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The day after New York City announced grades for virtually every public school in the city, parents were discussing the meaning of the grades. Because the scores were based not just on performance but on progress and because similar schools were judged against one another, there were plenty of surprises.
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Under a blunt new A-through-F rating system that judges schools not just on performance but also on progress, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has designated 50 New York City public schools as failures and says their 29,000 students would be allowed to transfer elsewhere.
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New York City has released the first-ever progress reports on the city's public schools. The reports give each school a letter grade-A, B, C, D, or F-based on the academic achievement and progress of students as well as the results of surveys taken by parents, students, and teachers. Of 1,224 schools that received Progress Reports, 279 (23%) earned an A, 461 (38%) earned a B, 312 (25%) earned a C, 99 (8%) earned a D, and 50 (4%) earned an F.
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