Rally To Be Held At East High School
Regents Testing Alert!!!

BOTCHED JUNE EXAMS DEVASTATE OUR KIDS!
Thousands Will Not Graduate Due to Flawed State Exams

Rally To Be Held At East High School

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

3:30 p.m.

Bring your friends, your enthusiasm, your voice and a banner!

The following are results of Commissioner Mills' Regents-for-all testing plan
--Thousands of children in New York State will not graduate this year due
to poorly-designed, unfair Math A Regents Exam. Preliminary results show
less than 30% of children across the state passed.
--Thousands of children in New York State failed the unfair, mean-spirited
Physics Regents Exam. Physics is taken by the top third of students across
the state. Preliminary results show only 50% of these top students passed
this horrendous exam.
--A corrupt State Education Department (SED) manipulates passing rates
for these exams with NO ACCOUNTABILITY to taxpayers, teachers or students. For additional information on the manipulation of test scores, check out the physics' links on this site.
We demand that the State Education Department make the following changes:
--All seniors who failed the Math A exam be exempted from this requirement
and allowed to graduate this year if they maintained a passing average.
--The SED immediately adjusts the rating scale of the Math A exam for all
non-seniors to be in line with other comparable Regents exams
--The SED immediately adjusts the rating scale of the Physics exam to be
consistent with the grading scale for the Earth Science and Biology exams