LIU ON REGENTS GRADING DELAY
Yesterday, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu called on the Department of Education to invalidate the four Regents exams – Living Environment, U.S. History, Global Studies, and English – that have been outsourced to McGraw-Hill for help with grading and have encountered numerous problems and delays, according to published reports.
"It is unconscionable that students, families, and schools should suffer through fake graduations because their Regents grades are unknown. The more than $3 million paid to McGraw-Hill should be returned to the City immediately, the grades students received on their regular final exams in these subject areas should be substituted for the Regents, and normal graduations should go on starting today and through the rest of the school year."
Background:
"Serious glitches with electronic grading delay Regents scores," Gotham Schools:
http://gothamschools.org/2013/06/18/serious-glitches-with-electronic-grading-delay-regents-scores/