Never Trust A Politician Running On Test Scores

That third term will make him the Rod Paige of the Northeast:

New York State education officials acknowledged on Monday that their standardized exams had become easier to pass over the last four years and said they would recalibrate the scoring for tests taken this spring, which is almost certain to mean thousands more students will fail.

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Large jumps in the passing rates, which Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg trumpeted in his re-election campaign last year, led to criticism that the tests had become too easy.

That’s a pretty tame fourth paragraph there. I’m sure you got about twenty of these sent to your house: