School district 26 has all 22 of its schools ranking above grade level in reading achievement. And P.S. 178. located in district 26. goes to the head of the class by scoring highest among all of the elementary schools in the city of New York. Another. district 25. has all but one of their schools above grade level. and that school has a disproportionately high population of students who are newly arrived immigrants and not yet proficient enough in English to even take the reading test. While reading scores and national averages are not the only criteria for measuring excellence in education. they are indicators of achievement in the mastery of basic skills and of improvement in performance. These scores are especially gratifying to see at a time when public schools. particularly urban public schools. are being depicted as incapable of educating our children and are being threatened with decreasing public sector financial support.
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