This just confirms … the ineptitude of the state Department of Education to give more attention to the cycle 1 scores (first released scores) than to the cycle 2 scores (second released scores) when the cycle two scores are, in fact, the correct ones. I think there are a lot of people in education who work very hard … It borders on being libelous that the state prints the test scores … knowing that they are going to change.

Don Frank, Principal of Weston School in Manville, where two schools were labeled Schools In Need of Improvement because the D.O.E. didn’t include scores from the alternative assessments taken by some children with disabilities. (Courtesy of CentralJersey.)