ESSAY: The Achievement Bell Tolls For Us All
The DMPS at a recent school board meeting reviewed the latest “proficiency” results on federally required measurements of reading, math, attendance, graduation, and participation. As reported in this newspaper, the district missed the benchmarks set by the federal government on reading and math scores. With the exception of two elementary schools, all of the schools in the DMPS did not reach the bar of roughly 81% proficiency according to federal law. A school is given this “mark of shame” if any one of several sub-groups of students fail