This should stress out the city’s fifth and eighth grade parents, who are already stressed out because they have to go through the hideous process of getting their kids into public middle and high schools this year. They need those stupid test scores for applications. I wish they’d just throw all those standardized tests away. This from New York 1, my source for some Brooklyn news:

City students are heading back to school next week, but they still
haven’t seen the results of the tests they took last school year.

The Daily News says results from reading and math standardized
tests for students in third through eighth grades have not been
released yet.

The tests were taken in January and March, but officials say the scores won’t be available until September 14th at the earliest.

Education officials say since this is the first time the state
administered the tests under the federal "No Child Left Behind" law,
they don’t want to risk mistakes by rushing the grading process.

But critics say they delay could be harmful because some children who should be held back could be moved to the next grade.