By CHRIS POWELL According to the state Education Department, people in Connecticut should rejoice that the state’s four-year high school graduation rate has just exceeded 90% for the first time since the 2010-11 school year. But the data is nonsense, just as it was in 2011. New Haven piously presumes it should expropriate property Tax-shiftingContinue reading “Graduation rate is meaningless in a system of social promotion”
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Student scores rise marginally but remain the usual disaster
By CHRIS POWELL Whoopee! Last week the state Education Department cheerfully announced that Connecticut public school students in Grades 3 through 8 showed marginal improvements on the most recent state proficiency tests in English and math. Most in poll disapprove Lamont; could election be competitive? Outrage about Danbury arrests shows Democrats want open borders StateContinue reading “Student scores rise marginally but remain the usual disaster”
State Education Department belatedly notices Hartford school disaster
By Chris Powell At last the state Education Department seems to have noticed that long after Hartford’s school system was designated an “alliance district” and given extra state money to execute a special plan to improve student performance, performance has not improved and the school system itself is falling apart, with a $40 million budgetContinue reading “State Education Department belatedly notices Hartford school disaster”
