RB W wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Public_Schools
Uh ... wow ... that's impressively bad ... I do note that the the 6 year state takeover didn't work either. In this instance, I really hope the charter schools help. However, I will note the following:
University Preparatory Academy are elementary, middle, and high schools which have shown test scores above averages for Detroit Public Schools.[61] Their goal is to graduate 90% of incoming freshmen and have 90% of those graduates go on to college. They intend to meet that goal for the first time this year. They pay for ACT college admissions tests, there are no bells between classes. They lease a building from philanthropist Bob Thompson for $1.00 per year on condition of meeting student performance goals.[62] However, these scores are below high performing DHS schools with selective enrollment such as Bates Academy, Burton International and Renaissance High School.
I find it amazing that even in such a disaster of a system, the public school still bests the private school if you let them exclude the idiots causing the majority of the problems.
Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer to this. On one hand, excluding the problems clearly helps. On the other hand, what do you actually do with the problems?
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