Another “Big Lie” from Achievement First: “100 percent college acceptance rate.” - Wait, What?

Another “Big Lie” from Achievement First: “100 percent college acceptance rate.” - Wait, What?:

Another “Big Lie” from Achievement First: “100 percent college acceptance rate.”

by jonpelto

In a story entitled Amistad Sends 30 To College, “Loses” 23, the New Haven Independent highlights what Wait, What? readers have known for a while; when the charter school management company, Achievement First Inc. claims that they achieve a “100 percent college acceptance rate,” it should not be considered a “statement of fact.”

Achievement First, of course, being the charter school management company founded by Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

As the New Haven Independent explains in their story about Achievement First, “The “100 percent” figure does not give the full picture for the whole group of kids who entered Amistad four years ago. Data show that for nearly one of them who walked across the stage Wednesday, another was “lost” along the way. Students “lost” to Amistad include one senior who withdrew in March to attend adult education.”

Readers may remember the following chart, published in an earlier Wait, What? post that