He said his opinion was supported by the Pentagon's top testing director.
He said the department was already searching for a new testing director.
Mr. Levy has appointed LORI MEI, Mr. Tobias's deputy, acting testing director while he conducts a search for a permanent replacement.
But this time, the corrected percentile scores virtually eliminated the unexplained drops that had troubled Mr. Kline, the Fort Wayne testing director.
Robert Tobias, the longtime testing director in New York City, does not accept the company's explanation, particularly in light of the early warnings that CTB received.
When the eagerly awaited reading scores arrived from Monterey in early May, Mr. Tobias, the New York system's testing director, was among the first to see them.
But when Mr. Kline, the testing director in Fort Wayne, got his district's scores in early 1999, he saw that they had plunged unexpectedly.
Mr. Taggart had more to say when he called Mr. Tobias, the city's testing director, on the first day of school, Sept. 9, 1999.
As testing director for the local school system, Mr. Kline quickly alerted the company, CTB/McGraw-Hill, but it did not fully investigate his complaint at the time.
The testing director for the New York City Board of Education accused a major testing company yesterday of miscalculating yet another set of scores, this time on a sixth-grade reading test in April 2000.
