New York catches the "CATS fever" of inflated school test grading

We learned all about inflated scoring on state tests in Kentucky years ago when I (and others) started to point out here and here that proficiency rates on our now defunct CATS school assessments were soaring while our kids continued to get low proficiency rates on federal tests.

Now, New Yorkers are learning that the “CATS Fever” of educators inflating school test results over time isn’t limited to the Bluegrass State.

Hopefully, our new pending assessment will include some safety mechanisms to insure we don’t get a repeat infection of “CATS Fever” when our new tests come on line in a year or so.