New York Charter School Solution Worse than the Problem
Sharon Otterman for the Times has another nail today for the Bloomberg/Black edu-coffin. The first graph has this:
The new statistics, part of a push to realign state standards with college performance, show that only 23 percent of students in New York City graduated ready for college or careers in 2009, not counting special-education students. That is well under half the current graduation rate of 64 percent, a number often promoted by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as evidence that his education policies are working.And buried in the story is this detail that sent me to the State pdf. file to have a closer look:
The data also cast new doubt on the ability of charter schools to outperform their traditional school
