All candidates make them during campaign season, but most of the time they are forgotten after inauguration day, as “new priorities,” in politician-speak, arise.

That has never been Michael Bloomberg’s approach—he releases a report card every year compiled by someone on staff whose job is to track the administration’s progress.

Six months into the first term, the Bloomberg team has already moved on some of the initiatives the mayor promised New Yorkers they could expect if he was re-elected, but some remain in process at best. Since the mayor and his team already came out with their own report, much of the information contained below comes from sources around City Hall and out in the neighborhoods where evidence of progress—or lack thereof—can be seen, with grades based on how well the mayor has done in keeping on track.

1. Create or save 400,000 jobs. “Save,” of course, is a nebulous term. But the city has added 77,000 jobs since May, keeping it on target to hit 400,000 in three and a half years. Grade: A

2. Open Brooklyn Bridge Park. Two piers opened in April, with the city officially taking control in the spring. Grade A

3. Invest nearly $10 billion in infrastructure programs this year. The word “infrastructure” can be a slippery one, meant to include everything from new sewer and subway lines to new sports stadiums. That said, in the first half of the year the mayor had committed close to $9.3 billon in his executive budget, according to the Independent Budget Office. Grade: A

4. Cut taxes for small businesses and freelancers. This one was actually fulfilled before the campaign ended, when the Unincorporated Business Tax, which double-taxed entrepreneurs and freelancers, was reduced or eliminated. Grade: A

5. Create new Business Improvement Districts in Staten Island and Brooklyn. One is in process in the forgotten borough, and the administration is moving ahead with others in Bushwick and Cobble Hill areas. For now, both are in the relatively early stages, far from final legislative approval. Grade: C

6. Make 311 NYC’s voting hotline. The Board of Elections seems unwilling to give up its own Election Day votingirregularity hotline, thank you very much. If the mayor wanted to, he could dissolve the Board, but that has not been mentioned much recently. Grade: C

7. Eliminate the achievement gap in math. City students, grades 3 through 8, showed impressive gains in math scores last year, with 82 percent passing state tests compared to 74 percent the previous year. But the State Education Department is seeking to raise assessments, which many predict will result in more modest gains in closing the achievement gap than Bloomberg has overseen during his previous terms. Grade: C

8. Eliminate the charter cap. After heavy lobbying by the Bloomberg administration, the Legislature voted in May to raise (but not eliminate) the cap on charter schools to 460 from 200. But the mayor will have to wait until September to see whether his efforts aid the state in winning the federal Race to the Top money. Grade B

9. End ban on pre-K students in charter schools. The bill to double the state’s charter cap was a huge win for Bloomberg, but still fell short in ending the ban on admitting pre-K students in to charters. A spokesperson for the city Department of Education said, “We continue to work on the mayor’s campaign promise.” Grade: D

10. Give chancellor independent chartering authority. Bloomberg may have been successful in convincing the Legislature to double the cap on charter schools, but he was unable to get them to give his schools chancellor, Joel Klein, the authority to create its own charters. During the campaign, the mayor argued that the current process is full of delays and unnecessary obstacles. Apparently, Albany did not agree. Grade: D

11. Cut crime in half from 2001 levels. The total number of major crimes decreased dramatically in 2009 from 2001— by 34 percent, according to the NYPD’s CompStat database. With budget cuts and workforce reductions threatening to hinder the mayor’s progress, a 50-percent reduction could be difficult to come by. And recent news reports of police officials under pressure to produce crime reductions have cast doubt on the veracity of some of the administration’s tracking methods. Grade: B

12. Build a new greenway that connects Randall’s Island ball fields with the South Bronx. The initial phases of construction of the South Bronx Greenway are set to begin this summer. Construction of the Randall’s Island connector, which will tie the South Bronx Greenway into the Manhattan bike network, is scheduled to begin in fall 2011. Grade: B

10. Restart the F express. During the campaign, Bloomberg floated the idea of expanding F train services on unused tracks. But with the V and W now gone and the MTA struggling to find money to even keep existing services going, any efforts at expansion are on hold for now. Grade: D

11. Lower CUNY tuition cost. This one is largely in Albany’s hands, and Gov. David Paterson has been demanding that the Legislature pass a bill as part of the budget that would give CUNY schools the power to determine their own tuition rates, linking them to the Higher Education Price Index. This would likely raise tuition costs, since the measure would cause prices to rise faster than inflation. Grade: F

12. Make it a Class A misdemeanor to carry a firearm while intoxicated. Bloomberg along with State Sen. Jeff Klein held a press conference introducing the bill in the Bronx in February that would make it illegal to carry a shotgun, handgun or rifle while drunk. But the bill’s progress has stalled in the State Senate. A similar bill was introduced in the Council in May that already has the backing of Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Safety Committee chair Peter Vallone. Grade: B

13. Ease ballot access and halve the number of signatures required to get on the ballot. State Sens. Joe Addabbo, Shirley Huntley and Carl Kruger introduced a bill in 2009 to lower the number of signatures required to get on the ballot from 3,500 to 2,000, but it has yet to pass. The charter-revision commission is also considering issues that would increase voter participation in elections, though whether easing ballot access will be on the agenda remains unclear. Grade D

14. Increase services like free daycare for CUNY students. Bloomberg wanted to pour $6 million into this in his third term, but budget constraints have gotten in the way. CUNY officials are just hoping for a preservation of the status quo in terms of the subsidies they receive for their childcare program in the coming fiscal year. Cuts are expected to the services, jeopardizing their currently minimal rates. Grade: C

15. Eliminate public matching funds for campaign contributions bundled by lobbyists or those doing business before the city. Campaign finance law season is not yet upon us. While Bloomberg enumerated several proposals in his third-term bid, that kind of legislation often results from the city’s Campaign Finance Board annual report, due in late August/early September. Sources say that the conversation around City Hall hasn’t focused on the bundling-ban measure since the campaign. Grade C

16. Create a “footwear recognition database” to aid catching criminals. Big brother does not seem to be much closer on this than when Bloomberg touted it alongside a facial recognition software. At the time, he said it would take months to implement, but sources outside of the political sphere say the process takes much longer. Grade: C

17. Use GPS technology to locate missing children and solve crimes. John Walls, the Vice President of Communications at CTIA, the International Association for Wireless Communications, said what the mayor proposed would be nearly impossible to carry out. Too much of a liability for wireless providers, and the current system—which requires a subpoena to release GPS information—works “pretty well in a relatively short amount of time.” Grade: F