I hope that I am doing this correctly.
I found the story with Polipundit and worked from there.
Here is the NYT piece referenced :
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/education/15report.htm
So either the Times tainted their view of the report to gain the desired outcome, or the paper's reporter and her editors all went to public schools...
As it happens, I was told that Pinch Sulzberger's family's school of choice is Fieldston, a K-12 operation. Annual tuition: Just under $30,000 a year -- a lot for what the Times claims is generally an inferior education.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-gutfeld/ny-times-is-stupider-than_b_25189.html