JHarmon wrote about the seemingly lost linkage between dropouts and the efforts to keep Carol Johnson. There is a real link...although probably not what was suggested. Cluster the neediest kids in the city ... expect schools to do what they have never in american history done, which is to overcome in aggregate the effects of family and social class (lots o' references here if you want them)... countenance public figures criticizing shamelessly the schools and by inference a person who has gotten more out of this system than anyone else in the world could have ... cut inflationary increases in budgets ... look at removing the slight bump in compensatory funding that goes with concentrations of poverty ... lose a good, supportive board member in bill green, in part to this nonsense... Ya, there's a lesson. when public figures get away with targeting the near-heroic work of a first-class superintendent using spurious statistics like the droput numbers, we all lose. dennis schapiro linden hills _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
