Bobby Canosa-Carr — Director Of Secondary Education At The Accelerated Charter Schools — Admits On Camera That TAS Routinely Enrolls Unprepared Students In AP Classes
BOBBY CANOSA-CARR — DIRECTOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION AT THE ACCELERATED CHARTER SCHOOLS — ADMITS ON CAMERA THAT TAS ROUTINELY ENROLLS UNPREPARED STUDENTS IN AP CLASSES — THIS PRACTICE IMPROVES THE SCHOOL’S RANKING BASED ON AP ENROLLMENT — BUT LAUSD’S PROPOSED SCHOOL PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK WILL RATE SCHOOLS ON AP SUCCESS RATHER THAN ENROLLMENT — WHICH WILL LOWER TAS’S RANKING BECAUSE — ENTIRELY PREDICTABLY — THESE UNDERPREPPED STUDENTS DON’T PASS — IN OTHER WORDS RATHER THAN ENROLLING STUDENTS IN CLASSES THEY’RE READY FOR — AND THEREFORE CAN BENEFIT FROM ACADEMICALLY — TAS HAS BEEN SETTING STUDENTS UP TO FAIL IN ORDER TO BOOST ITS RANKING — AND NOW THEY’RE MAD THAT LAUSD MIGHT DOWNGRADE THEM BECAUSE OF THIS PERNICIOUS PRACTICE
If you follow LAUSD issues in the news you will have heard of the newly proposed School Performance Framework, a rating system ostensibly meant to improve something about schools but much more likely to be part of the wicked plans of its proponents, Nick Melvoin and Kelly Gonez, to break up our public school system and hand over the still-valuable fragments to their zillionaire masters in the charter school industrial complex.
Whatever the ultimate purpose, though, of this proposal, and despite the fact that it was written for Melvoin by the privatizers themselves, it nevertheless has at least some charter schools very nervous about how they might fare under the new rating standards, which would correlate to some extent with measurable quantities, like e.g. student test results and course grades and which would rate each school on a highly simplified five star scale.
In particular amongst the anxious ones there are our old friends at The Accelerated Schools, whose August board meeting I managed to videotape a few weeks ago, capturing, among other interesting episodes, a weirdo white supremacist soliloquy by board president CONTINUE READING: Bobby Canosa-Carr — Director Of Secondary Education At The Accelerated Charter Schools — Admits On Camera That TAS Routinely Enrolls Unprepared Students In AP Classes Michael Kohlhaas dot org