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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McMahon squanders her chance to improve Connecticut education
By CHRIS POWELL There’s so much wrong with public education in Connecticut generally and with the Hartford school system particularly that criticizing them doesn’t require making up stories. But that’s what the U.S. education secretary, Connecticut’s own Linda McMahon, did the other day to try to score a political point. Expect more from students, evenContinue reading “McMahon squanders her chance to improve Connecticut education”
Legislators are worrying most about the wrong students
By CHRIS POWELL In principle children can’t have too many people looking out for them. So state legislators are fairly concerned about the recent alleged abuse of three children who were withdrawn from public school on parental claims that they would be home-schooled. One of the children was murdered at home. Another died at homeContinue reading “Legislators are worrying most about the wrong students”
Bears are likely to triumph long before ‘affordable housing’ does
By Chris Powell With Governor Lamont’s veto of the wide-ranging housing bill recently passed by the General Assembly, Connecticut towns aren’t likely to reach the “fair share” quotas of “affordable” housing the bill set for them. But the legislature’s failure to approve other legislation may ensure that each town ends up with another quota —Continue reading “Bears are likely to triumph long before ‘affordable housing’ does”
Public schooling’s danger exceeds home schooling’s
By Chris Powell At this week’s hearing at the state Capitol on false claims of home-schooling that conceal child abuse, state officials stressed that they weren’t accusing home-schoolers of doing anything wrong. They were only asserting the need to check periodically on children who have been removed from public schools — to make sure thatContinue reading “Public schooling’s danger exceeds home schooling’s”
Case of illiterate Hartford girl should become a national scandal
By Chris Powell Hartford’s school superintendent, Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, says she’ll investigate the case of the girl who, the Connecticut Mirror reported a few weeks ago, graduated this year from Hartford Public High School without being able to read or write or do more than rudimentary addition and who then somehow was admitted to the University ofContinue reading “Case of illiterate Hartford girl should become a national scandal”
