Regan/Ambach/Hobart – SED Audit See also: Attendence See also: Dropouts , 1985-1986

Report by Office of the State Comptroller of audit of State Education Department, “Monitoring of Programs for Quality of Elementary and Secondary Education,” August 9, 1985; letter to state comptroller Edward Regan from NYSUT president Hobart, responding to audit, acknowledging high dropout rate, unmet need for remedial services, asserting that students in New York State are attaining the highest learning achievement than at any other time in the nation's history and in any other nation in the world, May 13, 1986; draft statement at press conference by Regan calling State Education Department an unaccountable, arrogant bureaucracy, decrying lack of available information about educational performance in New York State schools; letter to Regan from Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach responding to statement at press conference, asserting that Education Department has the most comprehensive assessment program in the nation, April 3, 1986