It looks like Bloomberg's focus on the city's education has yielded some high grades.
From the NYT article: "The number of New York City high schools receiving top marks on the Bloomberg administration’s contentious report cards jumped this year, with more than 83 percent earning an A or B, the Department of Education announced on Wednesday." Also, "the number of schools receiving grades in the second year of the program grew to 284 from 236, reflecting the shifting of the city’s high school map toward more and more new small schools (new schools do not get graded until a senior class has graduated). These small schools, broadly speaking, did better on the report cards: The average size of schools earning A’s was less than half the size of those getting D’s and F’s, and schools with fewer than 500 students were twice as likely to earn A’s as those with more than 500."
And Brooklyn Technical High School stepped up from a B to an A this year. All eight specialized high schools received an A. This sounds good, but at the maybe at the cost of waves and waves of standardized exams and assessments on students.
