Progress Reports: The Numbers Behind the Grades
In Monday’s New York Post, James Merriman highlights several additional findings from the 2011-12 New York City Progress Reports, based on the full data set now available on the NYC DOE website. (Our initial analysis of the top-level letter grades can be found here.) The full data set provides numerical detail around several important trends, […]
Progress Reports: High Marks for Charter Schools
Today, the NYC Department of Education (NYC DOE) released its 2011-12 Progress Reports for public schools serving grades K-8, including charter schools. Overall, charter schools’ grades are improved from the previous year. Close to half (46%) of all charter schools received an A grade, compared to 25% of public schools citywide. As in previous years, […]
