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Long-awaited test scores showing how students around New York state fared during the pandemic — and how city kids performed — will finally be out in three weeks.
New York State Education Department officials set a Nov. 4 release date of reading and math results for third-through-eighth graders, months later than usual, according to a decision from state commissioner Betty Rosa.
The lag sparked outrage from activists demanding a first look at how school closures and the trauma of the pandemic impacted New York kids. Conservative watchdogs at the Empire Center for Public Policy are suing for the data.
“The data should have been made public months ago — as it was each year in the past,” Peter Warren, director of research at the Empire Center, wrote in a blog post.
Statewide results are usually released in August or September but were delayed this year over what the education department said were changes to how it compiles the data. Officials have said families and schools were getting results sooner — and pushed back on a public data dump.
