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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: New York City's charter schools

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: New York City's charter schools

New York City's charter schools

GRADE SHOCK: REGULAR SCHOOLS TOP CHARTERS, October 1, 2010, New York Post

…Traditional public schools bested the city's charter schools on annual report-card grades -- scoring 10 points higher on average on a 100-point scale, new data shows.

The city's more than 1,000 public elementary and middle schools averaged a B on their so-called "progress reports," which assign letter grades to schools based largely on how much students improve on state math and reading tests in a given year.

By comparison, the city's 60 charter schools that received letter grades this year averaged a C+.

"This means that either the strategy Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor [Joel] Klein have touted s