Another relevant education report was released last week:

NYSUT’s report, Taking Stock: A Progress Report on Public Education in New York State (PDF), uses new research as well as national studies to demonstrate that educational success and adacemic achievment are significantly deeper and far more widespread than policymakers, politicians and the press would have you believe. And this is despite the fact that, “as school bells ring to open the 2012-13 school year, the state’s 697 school districts will be operating with $1.1 billionless in state aid than at the start of the 2008-09.”

The union, however, also emphasizes in its report that celebrating educational success does not mean “ignoring the very real needs of students who are not yet achieving at a level necessary for success in school and in life.”