New York

		REPORT CARD
		NAEP exams		% Scoring proficient
		1996 8th grade math		22%
		1996 4th grade math		20%
		1996 8th grade science		27%
		1994 4th grade reading		27%
		QUALITY COUNTS 1999 grades
		Standards and assessments		A
		Efforts to raise teacher quality		B
		School climate		D
		Resources (funding):
			Adequacy	B
			Equity	D
			Allocation	B

N ew York focused on efforts to improve the quality of its teaching force last year, and that's reflected in its grade. The state enacted a reform package that affects nearly every stage of teachers' professional lives, including new standards for incoming teachers and beefed-up requirements to maintain a teaching license. Beginning in 2001, school report cards also must list performance information about a school's teachers, such as the number who have been rated unsatisfactory. Meanwhile, the state is implementing new tests for students, including a requirement that all high school students eventually pass "regents'" exams to graduate. And the state continues to fine-tune its program for intervening in low-performing schools.

* NOTE: The equity grade is based on 1994-95 data, the most recent available.

© 1999 Editorial Projects in Education

Vol. 18, number 17, page 163