New Orleans public schools (charter district) make gains in state test scores

[Sgent]

Source: New Orleans Times Picayune

Progress in the Recovery School District, a state body that took over most city schools after Hurricane Katrina, once again outpaced the rest of Louisiana. Since 2007, the proportion of students in the district scoring "basic" or better has now more than doubled, rising faster than any other district in the state.

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The Recovery School District still has far to go in building what could be called a high-performing school district. But the proportion of RSD students scoring at basic proficiency in state testing climbed 5 percentage points to 48 percent this spring from the year before. That figure stood at 23 percent in 2007.

The latest results compare with growth of just 1 percentage point to 66 percent across the state as a whole and 2 points to 82 percent at schools under the Orleans Parish School Board.

Progress in the Recovery School District was not universal. Improvements in fourth-grade math tests, for instance, stalled this year, with the same 53 percent of students at basic or above as in 2010.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2011/05/new_orleans_schools_show_gains.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. How was the data manipulated?

[alp227]

2. one factor: the selectiveness of charter schools? n/t

[freshwest]

3. Excluding disabled kids, proabably.

[Sgent]

4. Nope

The only non-charter schools in NOLA are selective admission magnet schools (aka Ben Franklin which has selective admissions, etc.)

[w4rma]

5. Gentryfied the area by kicking out/killing off the poor. (nt)

[Sgent]

6. The baseline

of these results is after Katrina, not before.

[w4rma]

8. So the baseline was a period of instability for the region. Bad choice. (nt)

[Luminous Animal]

7. There is, of course, more to this story...

http://theneworleansimperative.org/research-and-reports

Particularly, see the pdf report by clicking on the link titled:
Hatfield RSD Propaganda 2011

Better yet, check out the whole site. There is a lot of info that contradicts the assertions in the OPs link.

[plumbob]

9. I see the lying statistics bastards have been at work.

Don't look at "rate" of improvement. A school that scored a 1 last year and a 2 this year made a 100% improvement! Yippee skippee! While the school that scored 100% last year and 100% this year didn't improve at all, making them a shitty school.


Actual percentages in the OP for passing:
Recovery District (the charter) : 48%
State of Louisiana overall: 66%
Orleans Parish School Boards (public school) 82%.

So the Orleans Parish schools outperformed the charter by 34 points or about 75% and the state by 16 points or about 25%.

I hate it when bastard lying apologists put together shit to try and make a turd look like a Baby Ruth.