New York State
New York is redesigning its education accountability system. The state has moved beyond punitive measures toward support-based interventions. Every CSI, ATSI, and TSI designation requires measurement infrastructure that identifies which students need help — and whether they're getting it.
NYSED has the assessments. What's missing is the verification layer.
That's what VERA provides.
700+ districts across New York State. 152,000+ ELL students in NYC alone.
Accountability Designations
New York's accountability system identifies schools and districts for targeted support. Each designation triggers intervention requirements — but do those interventions reach the students who need them most?
CSI
Schools in the bottom 5% of performance, or with graduation rates below 67%. Requires comprehensive needs assessment and evidence-based interventions.
ATSI
Schools with student subgroups performing at CSI level. Requires targeted interventions for specific populations — but which students within those subgroups?
TSI
Schools with chronically underperforming subgroups. The designation exists. The infrastructure to verify intervention effectiveness does not.
New York's Data Infrastructure
New York operates some of the most sophisticated education data systems in the country. Annual assessments, longitudinal tracking, accountability dashboards — billions of data points.
Speaking, listening, reading, writing scores for English Language Learners across all grades.
Annual English Language Arts assessments with claim-level breakdowns including written expression.
High school exit exams in English, mathematics, sciences, and social studies.
Public accountability data portal with school-level performance metrics and demographics.
Are the state's interventions actually reaching the students who need them most? Every system measures outcomes — what a student scored, whether they graduated. None measures whether the intervention a district funded is reaching the right student, in the right way, at the right time. That is the accountability gap the Reimagine Phase must close.
The Student No System Sees
The child who can speak English fluently but cannot write it at grade level. Present in every large district. Invisible in every aggregate report. No accountability system in New York — or anywhere — identifies these students by name.
VERA uses NYSESLAT speaking scores against Grades 3-8 ELA written expression scores to compute a district-level oral-written delta that identifies precisely which populations have been left behind.
In New York City's Grade 7 ELL population, speaking proficiency exceeds writing by 34 scale score points. These students are receiving oral language support when they need writing intervention.
That's not a data anomaly. It's 152,000 students.
The Platform
The Verification Engine for Results and Accountability is live, built on New York's existing public data, producing district-level oral-written delta measurements today. No new data collection. No new burden on districts.
VERA produces the evidentiary foundation for everything the Reimagine Phase requires: verification that CSI interventions reach CSI students, that ATSI supports target the right subgroups, that TSI designations trigger appropriate responses.
Not more dashboards. Not more designations. Verification that interventions actually reach the students who need them.
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