‘Post’ top of class

Press, 22 June 1989, Page 1

‘Post’ top of class

NZPA-Reuter New York State education authorities called off an annual chemistry test for 80,000 secondary school students yesterday after a New York newspaper published the answers on its front page. The “New York Post” printed the answers to the state’s Regents test for chemistry under the headline “Easy as Pi,” saying it was doing so because thousands of bootleg copies of the exam were being sold across the city for as much as SUS2OOO ($3500). A spokesman for the state’s

Education Department accused the “Post” of acting irresponsibly and causing the state to lose the $U5250,000 ($440,000) it had spent organising and preparing the annual examination which is taken by students entering college or seeking a higher level of diploma. But the “Post” editor, Mr Jerry Nachman, said, “I was astonished that before I published the story, the department hadn’t cancelled the test. We did not contaminate the test. We published the answers because the test had been contaminated.”