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Schools Matter: New York Times Confirms Loyalty to Bloomberg's Charter Propaganda Machine




Schools Matter



New York Times Confirms Loyalty to Bloomberg's Charter Propaganda Machine

Brent Staples has been stupid about education for a long time, and today's NYTimes Editorial on charter schools in NYC shows that he is only getting stupider by the day. A recent report on NYC charters showed 51% of students in NYC charter do better in math than the public schools, which means of course that in 49% of charters, they do worse or no better than the publics.

In reading, only 29% of NYC charters have higher reading scores than the public schools, which means that that in 71% of the charters, reading scores are no better or lower than the public schools. Now 
here is how Staples and Co. reports these findings in their corporate editorial today:

. . . .A new study from the center [CREDO] has