Monday, January 15, 2007

 
Whoops, Did We Say 46 Kids In Class?


The NYC Department of Education made a boo-boo in its newly required-by-law reporting of actual class sizes throughout the city. The already-late report to the City Council wildly overstated class sizes in four high schools. From the Daily News:

While the average size of 10th- and 11th-grade English classes at Enterprise, Business and Technology High School in Brooklyn were originally put at 46.5 and 43.5 students, revised numbers show the classes average 29.2 and 24.5 kids.

Social studies classes for sophomores, juniors and seniors at Richard R. Green School in Manhattan, reported, respectively, at an average 37, 37.5 and 41.9 students actually should have been 31.3, 28.8 and 32.5.

Sometimes it is like shooting fish in a barrel.
posted by Joe W. at PermaLink 12:08 PM
 

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