After several months of delays, a Web site that offers an interactive portfolio of public school students' test scores, grades and attendance rates will be available for all parents by the end of June, the Department of Education said on Thursday.
The announcement came at a critical moment for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: lawmakers in Albany are weighing whether to renew the law giving the mayor control over city schools, which expires June 30, and chief among their concerns has been the way the mayor and his schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, have treated parents.
Critics have said Chancellor Klein in particular has consistently turned a deaf ear to voices from the outside, including parents' complaints that the pressures to prepare for tests have supplanted quality instruction in schools.
On Thursday, Mr. Klein sought to show a sweeter side of his accountability efforts with a colorful, sometimes whimsical Web site that was created for the city school system, under a city contract. It features cartoon characters explaining the difference, for instance, between performance levels 3 and 4 on state math tests.
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