Overall, of the 1,193 schools to receive grades for last year, 304 schools received an A, 421 receiv

Since 2007, the city has given schools a letter grade each year based largely on calculations of their students' test scores. Schools that receive an F, D, or three consecutive C's or worse can be closed.
Last year, 120 schools fell into that category, and the department ultimately moved to close 10 of them. But this year, 217 schools received those grades, suggesting that this year's closure toll could be greater than in the past.
The striking jump is a late-onset effect of the state's 2010 decision to raise the proficiency bar on its state tests. In 2009, just  two schools had received F's and 84 percent earned A's . But that year, most schools saw their test scores fall, and nearly  70 percent of schools saw their progress report grades drop , too. The progress reports released today were the third since the change.
It is possible that more schools than usual will start the first phase of the closure process, called "early engagement," this year, Chief Academic Officer Shael Polakow-Suransky told reporters during rental car in ireland a briefing about the progress reports today. But he said most schools with middling progress report scores would not need to worry.
"Early engagement is still going to be a significantly smaller subset of these schools," he said. "There are triple C's in this group that I'm not really worried about… that are nowhere near the point where we would consider them for closure."
Progress report grades are a big factor in the city's school closure decisions. But officials also take into account rental car in ireland the schools' enrollment data, safety data, and leadership quality, and other department accountability metrics.
The progress reports have drawn criticism for their complex and ever-changing algorithms and for sometimes awarding low scores to top schools and high scores to schools rental car in ireland not considered desirable. But Polakow-Suransky said the reports have grown more sophisticated and accurate as the city has devised new ways to judge schools, such as by awarding them extra credit for helping high-needs students boost their test scores.
He touted this year's adjustments,  which include a new score for middle school students' pass rates  in core courses, and noted that most schools' letter grades didn't change much: 86 percent of schools received the same rating as last year or rose or fell by just one letter grade.
Department officials could not immediately provide a list of those schools, but Polakow-Suransky said the schools' progress rental car in ireland reports were adjusted so they were not unduly rental car in ireland rewarded for having high course rental car in ireland pass rates.
"This is the balancing act that is challenging around rental car in ireland measuring school performance," he said. "There's always a risk when there's data that doesn't have the security of a standardized exam that this can happen."
One metric that was not factored into the reports rental car in ireland this year, but is set to be included next year, was a look at how each middle school's recent graduates are faring in high school. The data, culled from the city's " Where Are They Now? " reports that track student cohorts over several years, appeared on this year's reports in a non-graded form.
Overall, of the 1,193 schools to receive grades for last year, 304 schools received an A, 421 received a B, 365 received a C, 80 received a D, and 23 received an F. Principals of A-rated rental car in ireland schools receive bonuses of $5,000 to $25,000.
As has always been the case, Queens schools scored the highest, on average, compared to other boroughs. In a PowerPoint presentation delivered to reporters, department officials also called attention to the scores of charter schools and the 250 elementary and middle schools opened under the Bloomberg administration. Both beat the city average, the department noted.
rental car in ireland Several charter school networks, including Democracy Prep and Success Academies, sent press releases touting their progress report scores. And in a statement, James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center, celebrated the 45 charter schools that scored A's, calling them "another sign that charters are making tremendous progress," in a statement. Seven of the top 15 schools were charter schools.
"We hope they will share their lessons broadly to help make every public school great," he said. The statement also touted the charter schools' performance on one piece of the progress report: student growth. About a third of city charter schools earned A's in that section, compared to 16 percent of schools citywide.
Teachers union officials did not comment rental car in ireland on the progress reports this year, though in the past they have criticized the reports for their heavy emphasis on test scores and for not offering principals strategies to improve their schools. Instead, the union shared a table of data from the reports showing that several of the highest-performing charter schools had very high suspension and student attrition rates. The officials said those schools were at an advantage because many students who would post low test scores leave instead, the officials said.
See the analysis from InsideSchools, showing that severe instability persists rental car in ireland in these grades, despite the DOE claims. Fully 24% of the schools that got failing grades this year earned A's and B's on their 2010-11 Progress
Reports. It is absurd to make any sort of decision based on grades so volatile and unreliable, that are determined primarily by one year s worth of change in test scores, which in itself is 40-80% random.
Any indication from Shael that Central takes ownership of this decline (resisting the pun) or the irony that he is not really rental car in ireland worried about  some schools which, by the DOE s measures, are designed to cause to worry?
Nothing has changed since Fall 2008(?) when  as covered rental car in ireland by WNYC s Beth Fertig in Why Cant U Teach Me 2 Read published in 2009  Jim Liebman filliblustered CECD2 (and yours truly) in defense of the progress metric and peer grouping.
This is a true example of how inconsistant Shael Suransky s team really is.  They make up rules as they go and have no real system in place.  It s about giving jobs to principal s who are friends .  We know what happened and it will be in the Post soon, pal.
1.  Mr. Bloomfield asks the ba-zillion dollar question.  2.  The complete and utter insanity of evaluating the schools that were undergoing the Turnaround process while data was still being culled is ludicrous.  3.  Many schools were one mili-point away from B  4. C does mean satisfactory in the real world.
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accounted for. DOE should be proud of PS 75, it should help this school accelerate on the path of increased progress, but instead, the school receives its third C. Will those in power ever wake up and concede that change does not come
These School Report Cards are such a load of BS!  The DOE number crunchers use some ridiculous formulas to generate letter grades that just make NO SENSE!   I wouldn t be surprised if the letter grades are already pre-determined and then they crunch the numbers to back up the results they want.   Top priority this year was probably to do whatever was needed to make the Charters come out on top.
But we have been the beneficiaries rental car in ireland of 8, almost 9, years of Bloomberg s PEP.  We have empowered principals.  We have 59 Children First Networks. We are free of the venality of local control. We can bask in the honesty of central control (except when they forget to watch the taxpayer dollar that is going to bidders who are friends with benefits)
Our students share buildings, despite space crunches. Our students don t worry about lost art or music classes.  They paint with food dyes and whistle through paper tubes.  They have Shael to patiently explain that it s all good, it s all fine
It seems likely that more schools will be closed this year. The office of New Schools is publicly saying that it plans to open 100 new schools rental car in ireland next year. Fifty charter schools and Fifty district schools.
Isn t the number rental car in ireland of schools that receive each letter determined by an arbitrary line drawn by the DOE. It doesn t mean that schools are performing worse. It means the DOE wants to close more schools and replace their teachers with non unionized rental car in ireland employees.
And what are parents embarking on school choice supposed to make of these grades? rental car in ireland  In Brooklyn we have zoned C schools (with a history of Bs and Cs) that are Well Developed, impossible to get into, and made the state s list of top schools.  In Brooklyn we have a popular and well-loved charter school (Community Roots) that got Cs after an F two years ago, is eligible for closure but has just expanded to middle school?  And we have A and B schools that are pointed to as evidence of low performing schools when charters come in to co-locate.  It s kind of ridiculous.