Schools' Report Cards Anger NYC Parents

Subject: Schools' Report Cards Anger NYC Parents Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:40 pm

NEW YORK (AP) -- Thanks to heavy parent involvement and high test scores, Public School 321 in Park Slope, a yuppie neighborhood in Brooklyn, is considered a gem of New York City's public school system.

In the eyes of New York's Department of Education, however, P.S. 321 deserved just a B in the city's first-ever school report cards, which are based largely on how students score on standardized tests.

Such accountability efforts - widespread since the advent of the federal No Child Left Behind Act - have raised the hackles of parents and educators across the country, who fault the methodology and question the wisdom of tying test results to the job safety of teachers and principals.

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Schools' Report Cards Anger NYC Parents

Schools' Report Cards Anger NYC Parents

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