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Mayor Elated by Small Gains in Pupil Scores On Statewide Exams

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 8/17/15

Calling it a “beautiful day” for the city, Mayor de Blasio last week lauded slight prog­ress in raising state test scores for middle-school students.

The figures for the third-through-eighth-grade English and Math tests, released Aug. 12 by the State Education Department, showed that students across nearly all demographic and grade-level categories made small gains in their assessments in the first full school year of the de Blasio administration.

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