Monday, June 29, 2015

Dumbing down the dum dums-----Failing NYC Students Get Exams Fixed By City

Failing NYC Students Get Exams Fixed By City | The Daily Caller:
"Students at a Brooklyn high school had their Regents exams “re-scored” by school administrators to allow them to pass, The New York Post reports.
Automotive High School is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and has been identified by the de Blasio administration as a “renewal” school. De Blasio has vowed to improve the schools with $163 million in the upcoming school year.
According to the city Department of Education it was Aimee Horowitz, superintendent of Renewal schools, who reviewed and approved the requests of nine Automotive students to have their January 2015 Regents exams re-scored.
The practice of re-scoring tests just short of passing is known as “scrubbing,” which was banned by the state in 2011.
“This is Scrubbing Part 2,” 
A veteren educator told the Post, “The teachers used to do it. Now it’s the administrators.”
A student at the school spoke with a guidance counselor about having his exam re-scored as he was one point shy of passing.
He was told to sign his name on a list, along with about 20 other students.
...City scores dropped in 2014 after a new rule stopped teachers from grading tests given at their own schools.
In June, only one student at Automotive High School out of 25 passed Common Core math, all trigonometry test takers failed..."

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