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Huh? I am as happy to see a higher percentage of New York City high school students graduate as the staunchest supporter of Mayoral Control.

But let’s not jump to conclusions that Mayoral Control is responsible — given the improvements throughout the state (click through to the PPT’s or the PDF’s) — nor by implication, that modifying Mayoral Control would see these nominal improvements reverse.

Yes, I have graded both the 8th grade ELA tests and the English Regents exams and have been told to “grade for what is there and not what is missing.” Huh? In other words, it doesn’t matter if the student doesn’t use proper grammar or know how to spell as long as you can understand “the content of his or her wiring.”

Yep, yep – keep him moving right to CUNY remedial classes where they can pay for what they should have been taught in high school.