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The strict new promotion standard could cause as many as 15,000 children each year to repeat third grade -- four times the number usually held back.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a wrong turn this week when, in an arrogant and ugly display of power, he bounced three members of the city's Panel for Educational Policy because they were going to vote against a new promotion standard that will likely result in thousands of additional third graders being held back.

Companies like GE and McKinsey are rigorous about promotion standards, but they are the exceptions.

Instead the youngest students sent to the academy became fourth graders who did not face the same new promotion standards.

Arne Duncan, the chief executive of the Chicago public schools, which adopted tough promotion standards in 1996, praised Mr. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein.

In Atlanta, third graders who do not meet promotion standards must attend summer school in order to move on.

As academic vice president at the University of Massachusetts, he questioned everything from faculty hiring and promotion standards to student recruitment.

Last year, only 55percentt of the 26,676 students who did not meet promotion standards in grades three, six and eight attended summer school.

The new spending -- about $185 million from the city and $600 million from the state -- would pay for more programs to help students meet tougher promotion standards.

But the success of New York City's summer school has been inconclusive since, the board members learned yesterday, there were no firm or objective promotion standards applied last summer.

[Page B8.] The debate in New York City over promotion standards in the public schools has played out across the nation and has long been the subject of intense discussion among education experts.