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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Sep 9, 2013, 03:04 PM Sep 2013

New York City public school students head back to class

Eyewitness News

NEW YORK (WABC) -- It's a big day for more than 1 million New York City school children.

The backpacks are packed and the schedules are in hand -- it is the first day of school!

Officials are looking for signs of improvement after standardized testing scores using new standards were quite low.

The latest core curriculum testing revealed deficiencies in English and math, which led to a lot of criticism of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/education&id=9241220

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