Board Contends Gore's Role Politicized NAEP Release
Washington
The nonpartisan board that governs the "nation's report card" is complaining that Vice President Al Gore jeopardized the integrity of the tests when he announced 1998 reading results to a campaign-style rally last month.
"The format, tone, and substance of that event [where Mr. Gore was the lead speaker] was not consistent with the principle of an independent, nonpartisan release of ... data," Mark D. Musick, the chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, wrote last month in a letter to Pascal D. Forgione Jr., the federal commissioner of education statistics for...
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