Joseph Olchefske is being praised for "closing the gap" between white and nonwhite students, yet in the fall of 2001 the NAACP was threatening to sue the Seattle School district for failing to close the gap. - see news item below.
The Minneapolis School District has also been boasting about how it is closing the gap. However, I have noted how the MSD administration has been cooking its data on student achievement, such as by counting only continuously enrolled student over a period of several years in the 2000 better schools report card, rather than considering the test scores for all students continuously enrolled from one year to the next. More recently the district has also been closing the racial learning gap on paper by pushing "at-risk" students out of the schools (and motivating parents to make better school choices) by promoting curriculum tracking in grade K, 1 and up, changes in attendance and disciplinary policies. --------------------------------- [old news item] NAACP may sue Seattle schools By Keith Ervin Seattle Times staff reporter 9/28/01 Citing "appalling" numbers of African-American children failing academically in Seattle public schools, local representatives of the NAACP said yesterday they may sue the school district. "We are tired of the excuses that have been given for African-American youngsters for not learning," said Oscar Eason, president of the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. http://www.scn.org/naacp/edu_info.htm -Doug Mann, King Field Mann for school board web site: www.educationright.com - REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
