DeVos Praises Charter, Private Schools As US Student Progress Ratings Flatline

[turbinetree]

Source: Talking Points Memo

WASHINGTON (AP) — The results of the latest Nation’s Report Card are in and the news isn’t good.

Fourth-graders made no improvements in math or reading, while eighth-graders’ scores were flat in math and only slightly improved in reading, according to results released Tuesday on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Overall, only roughly a third of American eighth-graders are proficient in reading and math along with about 40 percent of fourth-graders.

The figures are in line with recent trends. Students made big gains in the 1990s and early 2000s, but there have been no major improvements since then.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/devos-response-nations-report-card-rating

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Hey, Devos since you used Florida as a model for "charter education and private education", why don't / didn't you say something about Michigan as your litmus test in you comments..................the charter system there has failed.

Here lets go to current format to dispel your bull shit.........................check out what it says on right column about Florida and then check out Michigan, and how right wing legislative controlled state house republicans are failing the children to get an education.................



https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[JDC]

1. She is a Grade A dumbass.

[ancianita]

2. She praises the socioeconomic determinant of achievement, flip side of blaming defunded victims.

There is no model for schools but more comparably moneyed schools.

Yep, she's a total dumbass.

[CelticWinter]

3. be gone with that old witch

she's one dumb ass.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Poverty and poor education results go hand in hand.

When Republicans complain that public education is failing our children, it is their own economic policies that are contributing to poverty and thus poor education results. The NYT had an article earlier this year that has an eye-opening statistic. “According to the World Bank, 769 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2013; they are the world’s very poorest. Of these, 3.2 million live in the United States, and 3.3 million in other high-income countries (most in Italy, Japan and Spain).”

Can you imagine living on $1.90 a day? I cannot—and it is shameful that anyone in one of the richest countries in the world is that poor. Many people commented on the knowledge and public presence of the Margery Stoneman Douglas students. They have been amazing, but they have benefitted from a school system in which 65% of students are prepared for Advanced Placement courses, and only 23% of students qualify for free lunch. The school is supported by a community that is relatively well off. Now imagine schools where 95% of students qualify for free lunch. They are the poorest schools, and yet states and districts set public funding at the same per pupil rate. Poor schools need more help, but they do not get it. We need to be asking why and how we can better help those schools without damaging the schools that are better off.

For-profit charter schools will not help because they merely siphon off money that should be used for education and instead goes for their profit. People should be thinking about how these charter schools provide a better education. If you have $9,000 of taxpayer money to educate each student, the public school spends the whole $9,000. The for-profit spends only $6,750 if they have a goal of 25% profit, not an unreasonable goal for gross profit. Unfortunately, it’s the kids who get shortchanged.

[Turbineguy]

5. That would follow.

The worse the schools, the better for republicans. Still investing in ignorance is a long-term proposition. Usually republicans are (correctly in their case) of the position that there is no future.

[Rebl2]

6. I live in the

Kansas City area. The K.C. school district has several charter schools, some good others not so good. I have a cousin that taught at a private school in Ohio and it was not so great. Some kid pulled a knife on a student in her classroom. She quit that job at the end of the school year. Anybody that thinks all charter and private schools are much better than public schools are sadly mistaken.