Barras: What education reform evaluation?

District taxpayers may have paid out more than $3 billion during the past five years for public education, including modernization of school buildings. But they will have to wait until 2014 to receive a complete assessment about whether all that money actually affected academic outcomes for the city’s children.

The 2007 Public Education Reform Act had mandated annual evaluations. Further, a comprehensive five-year assessment was to have been completed Sept. 15, 2012.