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Article: MISSING ON MATH RESULTS; STATE LEAVES OUT SEVENTH-GRADERS WHO PASS EIGHTH-GRADE TEST.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2003
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Byline: Robert A. Baker Staff writer
Cazenovia schools Superintendent Chuck Read thought the published numbers in the state's report card on his district didn't add up.
Numbers released by the state to The Post-Standard showed a 69 percent passing rate in his district for the state's eighth-grade math test taken last May. Read felt those numbers were low.
That's when Read discovered that some of the students who passed the test weren't included in the state's figures sent to the media.
In other words, the numbers don't report all the Cazenovia students who passed the eighth-grade math test. They report only the Cazenovia ...