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Report: Empowerment helped; grading system “deeply flawed”
by Maura Walz on June 16, 2010 9:42 am
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Chancellor Joel Klein’s strategy of empowering principals while holding them more accountable for results helped struggling schools get better. But his A to F grading system is “deeply flawed” and needs improvement.
That’s the message of a new, incredibly detailed report from the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs.
The report is the result of a study of hundreds of schools, including in-depth interviews with principals and school visits. The authors focused especially on the Bronx’s District 7.
The report is being released this morning at a panel discussion featuring Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch; the Department of Education’s accountability chief Shael Polakow-Suransky; John Garvey, until recently the City University of New York’s liaison to the public schools; and MS 223 principal Ramon Gonzalez.
We’ll have more details after the panel. For now, here’s the report:
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