D.C.’s masterpiece of obfuscation
If you took at face value the press release that D.C. Public Schools issued about the just-released results of the 2011 D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System exams, you might think that great progress has been in the city’s classrooms.
What the press release really shows is that the city’s new mayor, Vincent C. Gray (D), and the city’s new schools chancellor, Kaya Henderson, are just at good at spinning and obfuscating as the previous mayor, Adrian M. Fenty (D), and the erstwhile chancellor, Michelle Rhee, when it comes to talking about student progress.
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