The glitches were so disruptive that some schools decided to throw in the towel and delay the test to another day.

Fred Smith, a former test analyst for the city Department of Education, said the stats make the state's tests "virtually useless" as a gauge of student performance. J.Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM ...

The number of Long Island students in grades three through eight who scored proficient in English during the latest round of state testing has fallen to less than half, though the region's performance ...