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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Mother Crusader: Charter advocates LOVE to throw around the F word

Mother Crusader: Charter advocates LOVE to throw around the F word:

Charter advocates LOVE to throw around the F word

Jersey Jazzman's take on Cerf's interview with the Associated Press reminds me of a letter from the Cherry Hill Superintendent and School Board. They were responding to Pastor Amir Khan who wrote an editorial in which he reported that in Cherry Hill “the share of black children who failed the standardized eighth-grade language arts test was three times the corresponding share of white children.” Quite a dire situation, clearly a charter is warranted, STAT!

Except that Dr. Reusche has actual data to back up the fact that Cherry Hill schools are improving educational outcomes for ALL of their kids. The Inquirer only ran a bit of her response mixed in with the other letters to the