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Good can often come from passionate visions of past government decisions. One of the many benefits of the Former President Bush with respect to the No Child Left Behind Act is test standardization for Public school systems. For example, each school from Elementary, Middle, High and any schools that have received public funding were rated with the same testing standards.
Consumer Information that can be used in deciding where to relocate or provide parents with an accurate assessment of our education institutions. Armed with such information, the public can hold teaching staff, Board of Educations and elected officials accountable.
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Survey Reveals Interesting Facts About Public School Rankings
A $2 million survey on the state of New York schools has just been released by Mayor Bloomberg, and is proving to be a veritable goldmine of new findings about the roles of parents, teachers and students in their public school rankings. The survey was part of an ambitious plan to grade all schools and was hailed by the Mayor as “the most successful effort” that has ever been made to collect data about the state of a district’s schools.
Even with all this grandiose rhetoric only 26% of parents in New York bothered to respond to the survey. This does cast light on the role played by parents on public school rankings. Statistics of respondents were slightly better in the case of students and teachers – 44% of teachers and 65% of students participated in the survey that aimed to collect data from the three pillars that determine public school rankings in New York.
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