Michelle Rhee’s empty claims about her D.C. schools record
Written by Matthew Di Carlo for Valerie Strauss’s The Answer Sheet. Read the entire article here.
“What I find disturbing is how [Rhee] continues to try to build her reputation and advance her goals based on interpretations of testing results that are insulting to the public’s intelligence.
For the most part, then, there was little meaningful change in DCPS testing performance over the past two full school years. Moreover, the graduation rate was also essentially unchanged – moving from 72 percent in 2009 to 73 percent in 2010 (2011 rates will be released later this year).
So, according to the standards by which Ms. Rhee judges policy effects — and advocates for their expansion —
