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Aug 09, 2011 12:33 am
Student test scores drop statewide
Scott Waldman in Capitol Confidential, the Albany Times-Union's political blog, reports that the state Education Department standardized test scores results showed New York’s students scored worse on English exams this year, and about the same on math scores statewide. Waldman cherry-picks these items from the results:
• 52.8% of grade 3-8 students across the state met or exceeded the ELA proficiency standard (a decrease from 53.2% last year); 63.3% met or exceeded the standard in math (up from 61% last year).
• Statewide results for black students reveal the persistence of the achievement gap: 35% of black students across grades 3-8 met or exceeded the ELA proficiency standard (compared with 52.8% for all students and 64.2% for white students); 44% met or exceeded the standard in math (compared with 63.3% for all students and 73.3% for white students)
• The percentage of students scoring at Level 4 in both ELA and math decreased statewide. On the ELA exam, 3.5% of students across grades 3-8 combined scored at Level 4 (down from 10.2% last year). In math, 23% scored at Level 4 (down from 24.7% last year).
Read the full story in Capitol Confidential.

Cairo traffic report
There is no parking in the Cairo Town Hall parking lot through Labor Day due to construction of the new library, behind the Town Hall. Main Street in Cairo will be closed to parking and traffic from Wednesday, August 10 at 7 a.m. through Thursday, August 11 at 3:30 p.m. due to that construction. There will be a detour through the Town Park to Mountain Avenue.

Haddad team prevails
Sam Pratt at sampratt.com reports that Judge Christian Hummel ruled Mon., Aug. 8 that Republicans filing a protest over a technicality of the Democrats do not have standing to protest because of a technicality. No one has yet detailed the cost to taxpayers, but both leaders of the Hudson Democrats and Hudson Republicans now have made public mistakes in this campaign. There will be a open write-in Democratic primary vote in the city of Hudson Sept. 13. Read the entire post at sampratt.com.
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