So NYC conducts a survey to help improve the schools and find out where they are failing, and the administrators want to cheat even on the survey.

Via NYDN:

City investigators are probing a whopping 21 cases of ethical misconduct on the annual schools survey from 2013, Education Department officials said Friday.

Results from the high-stakes polls of students, teachers and parents are used in decisions to award cash bonuses to principals and close schools when scores are bad.

They’re also used to award the letter grades all public schools get on their annual city progress reports.

Department rules prohibit principals from attempting to influence the surveys, but that hasn’t kept school leaders around the city from trying to game the system.

“It’s disgusting,” said a teacher at Public School 58 in Queens, where principal Adelina Tripoli is being investigated for pressuring teachers to give the school more favorable ratings.

“There’s no one watching out. So principals think they can do whatever they want. That’s what happened at my school,” said the PS 58 teacher, who asked to remain anonymous.

In an audiotape of a December staff meeting given to The News by a whistleblower, Tripoli spent nearly an hour browbeating her staff over PS 58’s “C” rating.

Then she tried to convince the teachers to give her a better rating on this year’s survey.

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