NOTE TO BLOOMBERG: Achievement Gap Same As When You Took Over School System

According to the NY Post, Mayor Bloomberg warned New Yorkers that a vote for many of the Democratic mayoral candidates would lead to disaster for the NYC school system:

“If the next mayor wants to take this city back to where it was 11 years ago, when the teachers union ran the school system, when books couldn’t be delivered, when teachers weren’t paid when they were hired, when minority kids were hopelessly behind white and Asian kids, where there was no accountability, where crime was rampant in the schools, God help us,” the mayor said.

Bloomberg is still living in the day when the NYSED and the Regents were inflating the test scores.

The achievement gap has not been reduced by his reform movement. 

As the NY Times reported after the state announced the test scores were inflated and put some reality back into the system:

When results from the 2010 tests, which state officials said presented a more accurate portrayal of students’ abilities, were released last month, they came as a blow to the legacy of the mayor and the chancellor, as passing rates dropped by more than 25 percentage points on most tests. But the most painful part might well have been the evaporation of one of their signature accomplishments: the closing of the racial achievement gap.

Among the students in the city’s third through eighth grades, 40 percent of black students and 46 percent of Hispanic students met state standards in math, compared with 75 percent of white students and 82 percent of Asian students. In English, 33 percent of black students and 34 percent of Hispanic students are now proficient, compared with 64 percent among whites and Asians.

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The latest state math and English tests show that the proficiency gap between minority and white students has returned to about the same level as when the mayor arrived. In 2002, 31 percent of black students were considered proficient in math, for example, while 65 percent of white students met that standard.

No, Mayor Bloomberg, you have not closed the test score gap between black and Hispanic students and white and Asian students.

Nice try rewriting history.

I know you're hiring a whole bunch of journalists at Bloomberg View and Bloomberg Philanthropy so you can get the history of the school system during your tenure written the way you want it written.

But that doesn't mean what you say is anything other than self-serving propaganda..