The District of Columbia’s government-run schools are failing!
A study by the National Assessment of Educational Progress just confirmed what any sentient being already knows: D.C. students consistently receive a sub-standard education.
It’ll take more than photo ops to clean up this mess, Mayor Williams. From the Washington Times:
In a study of the math and reading skills of fourth- and eighth-grade students in 10 urban public-school districts, D.C. students finished dead last in three of the four categories (fourth-grade reading and math and eighth-grade math).
Eighty four percent of the students in the D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) are black. Democrats on the D.C. Council and on Capitol Hill oppose President Bush’s experimental voucher plan for D.C. The man on the left wearing the bow tie favors school choice but so far hasn’t gone to battle for our most vulnerable citzens. An entire political party — the party of the “poor and oppressed” — is willing to squander the future of each of these students for political gain. They just don’t care! Michael Casserly, director of the Council of the Great City Schools (dig the irony!) wrote a hopeful-sounding article about the DCPS. I keep asking, “What can I do?” Maybe I can help the students one column at a time or become more active in the battle for school choice.
