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BOARD
OF REGENTS NAMES PANEL
TO
EVALUATE JUNE MATH A REGENTS EXAM
The Board of Regents today named a panel of leading mathematicians,
educators, college professors and other experts with a wide range of experiences
to evaluate the June 2003 Math A Regents examination. The panel, recommended by
State Education Commissioner Richard Mills, will be charged with addressing a
series of questions aimed at determining what happened with the Math A test and
why.
The panel will
have access to all records, technical reports, and data related to the design
and creation of the June Math A exam and other Math A exams, and to all members
of the State Education Department and consultants who took part in assembling
those tests. The panel’s findings will be published without modification.
William Brosnan,
Superintendent of Schools at the Northport-East Northport Union Free School
District, was named to head the Panel. Brosnan is a former math teacher and
chair of the Math Department (grades 7-9) at Northport.
Regents
Chancellor Robert Bennett said, “This panel will operate very independently.
We are fortunate to have enlisted people who are highly qualified and widely
respected, and they will bring a variety of important perspectives to the task."
Commissioner
Mills said, “This panel will give us a rigorous, independent, public
accounting of the test itself. With their help, we will find and fix whatever
problems exist in this June math exam so that New York can continue to improve
the education of all its children.”
The Commissioner’s memo to the Board, a list of panel members and the charge to the panel are attached.