The nation’s biggest public school system is about to start giving out grades — to its schools.
More than 1,200 New York City schools will be given report-card-style letter grades next week, for the first time. An A will mean bonus money; a D or an F could mean a new principal or a complete shutdown.
The grades are based largely on standardized tests. Schools will be compared to other schools with similar demographics, among other measures.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein says the new system will enable schools officials and parents to “hold our schools fully accountable.”
But principals’ union spokesman Brian Gibbons says principals are concerned that the data may not be “accurate, understandable” or “fair.”
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I think the chancellor should get a report card. He certainly doesn’t want one and he should be held accountable like everyone else. These grades are absolutely ludicrous. The principals are being judge by standards as absurd as the NYC teachers, which is why within a five year period the new ones leave. We are judge by how our rooms appear and for binders that are redundant with data we must keep everywhere. The school system has turned into one big circus of WHO IS AT FAULT when teachers have always strived to do what is best for our students. The chancellor and mayor have taken the JOY out of teaching. Thank G-d I taught for 30 years and most of them were happy ones!