Investigator of NYC DOE corruption. Supporter of public education. Fighter for rigorous education for all. RTs/follows not to be read as endorsements.
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BREAKING: Massive grade inflation discovered that #DOE does not want you to see at New York City public middle schools (see chart for math pass rates): #FireCarranza #GradeInflation
DOEcorruption retweeted
NYS is wrong to withhold depersonalized AP scores.
But NYC families are not really relying on @usnews to choose their LOCAL high schools.
"The state’s refusal to release aggregated, depersonalized AP score data is making it harder for families to choose the right high school."
Opinion | It is time for NY to disclose its high school data
cityandstateny.com/opinion/2…
DOEcorruption retweeted
Albany educrats are increasing NYS high school graduation rates without in any way improving education!
They keep hiding the truth from families by getting rid of standardized tests, inflating grades and lowering diploma requirements to pass the buck onto colleges.
The cost of remedial classes in college is effectively a tax on low-achieving students, because these courses don't earn credits towards a degree.
This is the genius of ideologues like Regent Shino Tanikawa.
tinyurl.com/bdh49rpt
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Here is what we have learned from the District 15 Diversity Plan. All eleven middle schools were available for district families to choose from, but low-income families were given priority for 52% of the seats at all the schools.
Prior to the Plan, the three schools in bold were the most popular because they were the highest-performing. After the Plan was implemented, these schools attracted and enrolled more low-income students.
However, enrollment at the lower-performing schools plummeted. Presumably, parents whose children were assigned to those schools chose not to attend. Overall, District 15 experienced greater enrollment losses than other districts.
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The sad thing is "proficiency" in state exams is such a low bar. 52-59% is deemed proficient. That is a failing grade. And the threshold has gone down over the years. nypost.com/2026/11/03/opinio…
DOEcorruption retweeted
There's a scandal fueling declining enrollment: Grade Fraud. Schools give passing grades to students who are objectively failing in math & English.
Here are 15 schools where the math course passing rate is over 70 percentage points more than the math proficiency rate based on standardized tests. The map shows the extent of Grade Fraud for middle schools citywide.
Lying to families prevents them from making timely interventions. This fraud must be stopped!
@JumaaneWilliams @DoEcorruption
ALT Adjusted proficiency is the percentage of combined Grade 8 mathematics assessment takers who either scored Level 3 or 4 on the statewide exam or took a mathematics Regents examination in lieu of that exam. Regents-only students are counted as proficient regardless of their Regents scores. Math course passing is the school's reported passing rate for mathematics courses across grades 6–8, rather than Grade 8 alone. Gap is the mathematics course passing percentage minus adjusted proficiency, measured in percentage points.
Today my office has released a major new report on student enrollment in NYC.
We found that k-12 enrollment in our public schools has fallen by 187k since 2013, with a projected decline of an additional 128k students by 2034.
As total enrollment declines, NYCPS is serving a student population with growing needs. The number of students with disabilities is increasing. In the most recent school year, approximately 73% of students were in poverty and 14% were homeless or living in temporary housing.
Our report finds the drop in enrollment is driven by declining births and families with children leaving NYC, with a particularly notable drop in public-school enrollment as students transition from elementary to middle school.
These trends have massive implications for our schools that we have only barely begin to grapple with. My hope is that this report will spur a long overdue conversation about what the era of falling student enrollment means for NYC, and what we can do to reverse or slow it. 🧵
DOEcorruption retweeted
Boomer parent here: mid-20th elementary school report cards noted standardized test results. Grades reflected test results. 1970s middle school is when shit went haywire. Mom watched both like a hawk.
DOEcorruption retweeted
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Adriana Aviles highlight the same problem: Their kids earned As but didn’t learn what they were supposed to. @amalyoung410 calls on principals to address the disconnect between state test scores and report card grades.
“Two numbers, and no one to connect them
Parents receive report cards during the school year. State test scores arrive in late summer, after the school year has ended and the child has finished that grade. The score report explains what each level means. It does not explain what it means when the state and the report card disagree, and no one is required to sit down with a family and tell them.”
amalyoung.substack.com/p/no-…
DOEcorruption retweeted
A 30 year-old clip, but I've heard most of these same arguments in the past month.
– Classrooms ought to be "more than" worksheets
– School is about "more than" basic skills and multiplication facts and reading
– We’re graduating more students, at “higher levels” than ever
– It’s not just reading, it’s “reading for purpose"
How do we know the "more than" is even happening? We don't, because it cannot be measured. That's what makes this a convenient argument when scores fall.
Meanwhile the things that can be measured (like whether a kid can multiply) are getting worse.
Don't be fooled into thinking some form of higher learning is happening that can't be measured. The best thing to do is just call it out.
Ask for evidence of learning. If students are learning, it can be measured.
And higher graduation rates don't mean much when the the skills students need to succeed in post-secondary or the workforce are getting worse.
DOEcorruption retweeted
“I looked back and discovered he was deemed ‘not proficient’ in math on a 7th-grade state exam.”
I give our state exams much more weight than my children's report card grades. Grades have become meaningless in the public school system.
In a devastating 1rst-person piece, NYC education advocate and mom Adriana Aviles tells how her son received the highest grades in math throughout elementary and middle school in Queens’ District 26, the best in the city.
Yet now in high school, she soon discovered, “He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions."
“My shock soon gave way to heartbreak, then anger. The NYC education system had betrayed my son to make itself look better."
“I failed too. I didn’t scrutinize his work closely or check his performance on state test scores because I figured if his report cards were good then everything was fine.”
“I looked back and discovered he was deemed ‘not proficient’ in math on a 7th-grade state exam.”
nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
DOEcorruption retweeted
Former Chancellor Banks also spreads the lie that grades are better predictors of future academic success than standardized tests which he uses to attack the SHSAT. “Good grades” hid how poorly NHJ’s and Adriana Aviles’ children were actually doing.
DOEcorruption retweeted
And it’s not just her son. In all 32 NYC school districts, far more middle schoolers passed math class than were proficient on the state test.
NYC public schools deceived me into thinking my son was a straight-A math student — but he can’t do fractions, basic algebra. Read today's cover here: trib.al/Xesuvi2
DOEcorruption retweeted
Adriana Aviles’ story in the @nypost yesterday reminds us why NYC’s Specialized High Schools are such a thorn in the side of educators and politicians. The #SHSAT won’t play along with their fake success metrics of grade inflation and graduation rates. Heck, @NYSEDNews is even getting rid of the requirement to pass high school exit exams, in favor of stuff that teachers grade.
This scatter plot comparing grades and state test scores is from 2019, but if it were updated, I’m certain the picture would be even worse today.
Credit of the chart @DoEcorruption.
DOEcorruption retweeted
One of the lessons here is that parents should double check the state exam scores as another guide to how their students are doing. You can't trust teachers is this age of "equity" grading which gives the teacher an enormous amount of subjective leeway to assign grades.
DOEcorruption retweeted
NYC teachers promoting nearly 100% of students - but nearly half are not proficient in math, reading: 'No consequences' trib.al/2W18olS
DOEcorruption retweeted
There is so much propaganda promoted about how “standardized tests don’t mean anything,” that parents are actually believing it and not consulting the results of their kids’ statewide proficiency test scores. And schools aren’t flagging low scores to parents
In a devastating 1rst-person piece, NYC education advocate and mom Adriana Aviles tells how her son received the highest grades in math throughout elementary and middle school in Queens’ District 26, the best in the city.
Yet now in high school, she soon discovered, “He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions."
“My shock soon gave way to heartbreak, then anger. The NYC education system had betrayed my son to make itself look better."
“I failed too. I didn’t scrutinize his work closely or check his performance on state test scores because I figured if his report cards were good then everything was fine.”
“I looked back and discovered he was deemed ‘not proficient’ in math on a 7th-grade state exam.”
nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
DOEcorruption retweeted
Not only has New York State been increasing public school spending while decreasing teaching quality, it removed the standardized testing requirement that would have forced accountability for this incompetency:
NYC public schools deceived me into thinking my son was a straight-A math student - but he can't do fractions, basic algebra trib.al/pWwmbHR
DOEcorruption retweeted
Adriana is a devoted parent leader (CEC26, Presidents Council, and now CCHS) in one of NYC’s top school districts, District 26. Her son attended good schools, earned As, and is now attending a top high school. Yet she’s only now discovering that he struggles with fractions. @nanalatinaAA
In 2020, @NYCSchools no longer permitted the use of state test scores in middle and high school applications. This is a disservice to families. I’m sure Adriana would have paid closer attention to her son’s state test scores if they were still used in admissions. Grade inflation and educational malpractice are real, even in good schools.
“It was only recently, after I realized how far behind he is, that I looked back and discovered he was deemed ‘not proficient’ in math on a seventh-grade state exam. How can he not be proficient in math but was receiving As?” @DOEChancellor
nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
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The NYC board of regents got rid of its teacher literacy test in 2017 because too few black and brown teachers could pass.
In 2022 it got rid of its edTPA examinations, a national assessment program which required submission of lessons plans and a portfolio of classroom instructional practices "that some have criticized as being a barrier to diversifying and growing the teacher workforce."
In 2026, it got rid of the regents testing requirement for high school graduation.
Less than half of black and brown students read at grade level in the 4th grade.
Public school spending continues to spike upwards each year even as the school hemorrhage students.
