The “credit recovery” system under which administrators at John Dewey HS in Brooklyn fixed grades to boost graduation rates should be scaled back, if not scrappe🐻🍨d, a top state education official said Thursday.
“Seeing a movie to get credit is not demonstrating compete🐻ncy,” said Board of Regents member Kathleen Cashin, a former New York City school superintendent.
She questioned the value of the make-up classes offered to struggling students, calling them aꩲn “after-the-fact quick fix” to jack up graduation numbers.
And a state legislator who chairs🦹 the committee that oversees the city’s public schools said he will grill the de Blasio administration about credit recovery during hearings he’s holding th﷽is fall on mayoral control of the schools.
“We haven’t even scratched the surface on the credit-recovery scandaꦫl,” state Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) said after reading an investigative report that found widespread grade-rigging at Dewey.
Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch also expressed alarm, saying “these people at Dewey were caಞught. I’m sure there are other schools doing it. The problem is more widespread than we like it to be. It needs to stop.”
Schools Chance💮llor Carmen Fariña insisted Thurs💜day she’s on top of “this very serious situation.”
She announced that her office will draft new edicts for schools offering credit 🍌recovery and provide added training for all administrators over the summer.
As for Dewey, she said, “We have removed the principal. We are looking ♓at other charges against the assistant principals.”