Friday, March 30, 2012

Democurmudgeon: Voucher's Fail Racine Unified School District. Rep. Robin Vos says give it 5 to 10 years!!

Democurmudgeon: Voucher's Fail Racine Unified School District. Rep. Robin Vos says give it 5 to 10 years!!:


Voucher's Fail Racine Unified School District. Rep. Robin Vos says give it 5 to 10 years!!


While voucher proponents have tantrums about how flawed the testing results were for Milwaukee Public, charter and voucher schools (they were not), an even more dramatic example of privatization failure is taking place in the Racine Unified School District that cannot be ignored:
Journal Times: Students who attended privateschools on vouchers, instead of Racine Unified schools … performed more poorlythan their district peers on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam. In Math, Racine Unified public students averaged61.5 percent, as opposed to the voucher student average of 50.8 percentproficient or advanced on the WKCE math tests. The statewide average was 78percent, and for economically disadvantaged students it was 64.7 percent.   
In reading, the private school choice students from Unifiedaveraged 55.7 percent proficient or