When you have schools that are only 1% competent in math, you have had a problem for a long time and have ignored it. What do you think are the future possibilities for the kids with these kinds of scores? Also, look at the charter school scores at the bottom. Yikes! Thus my question - if quasi-privatizing into charter schools gives DPS kids that much of a boost, why not do this to the entirety of DPS? What is occurring as that, as is the modus operindi of liberal Democrats, they are picking winners and losers. Even worse, the winners of this scheme will be bad-performing schools, while better performers will not be so lucky.I'm not impressed either with the Michigan averages. Only 46% passing in math? Does that include DPS? Since DPS is so large, doesn't that bias that average? What would the comparison be if the state average didn't include DPS and was compared then to the above numbers? What are the DPS passing averages in regards to math and English?
Just some thought as I bring up this article from the Detroit News: DPS gives control of lagging schools to private sector.
Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced Friday that he has hired four educational management companies to turn around 17 of the worst-performing high schools in the district, a move that marks what leaders say is the largest public school district overhaul of its kind in the nation.
"We have not been making the grade," Bobb said at a press conference at Central High School.
School board members expressed shock and dismay Friday -- just one day after they rolled out their own academic plan that they've asked Bobb to fund. Some accused Bobb of overstepping his bounds as a financial manager by launching an academic plan that will affect 20,000 students in three-quarters of the district's high schools without the board's knowledge.
The board was charged with working on the academics, while Gov. Jennifer Granholm brought in Bobb to work on the finances for a year.
"We have asked Robert Bobb to do a very difficult job and he needs the authority to do it right," said Granholm's spokeswoman Liz Boyd, noting Bobb is not overstepping his role. "He doesn't need to be micromanaged."
The district signed multiyear contracts with four out-of-state companies that will be funded through $20 million in federal stimulus dollars. The aim is to improve student achievement, discipline, respect, safety and graduation rates, district officials said.
Can Michigan no longer educate its own students? Do we not have such private companies here in the state? Also, how are these companies to get paid as DPS is in deficit and therefore utterly bankrupt? And why does DPS need a school board at this point? Shouldn't it be dissolved due to perpetual incompetence? If Bob^2 is pulling all the strings, why have a paid board? It just figures that the board would get in the way of any progress, no?
Now onto bigger and better questions. If a quasi-privatization is a good thing for some students, how much more beneficial would a full privatization be? I'm talking full vouchers to go wherever the parents choose, as it should be anyway. It's been proven to work exceedingly well in the D.C. schools that are in about the same shape as DPS. In fact, the D.C. kids got a better education and it cost a mere 25% of what they were funded in the public schools. Shouldn't we go there? Like now? Before even more kids are doomed in that school system to lifetime poverty?
By the way, the above statistics inlcuded only math and English. A Conservative Teacher has something to say about the state of history education as well: Students Lack of Historical Knowledge is an Outrage
Previously:Detroit Public Scools Considering Bankruptcy. Would Be The First Of Its Kind
DPS - $430 million in deficit - try to trim workforce. Get pushback from teacher union
DPS Layoffs Increase To 2,500. Still Not Enough; Bankruptcy Soon?
DPS to cut 1,900 jobs, still in deficit. To Robert Bobb: "MR. MANAGER - TEAR DOWN THIS DISTRICT!"
Detroit Public Schools, $430 million in deficit, finds it has 257 "ghosts" on the payroll
How does a DPS budget deficit that started at $140 million get "whittled down" to $243 million?
Non-surprise: DPS deficit grows to $430 million
Audit: 97.4% of DPS schools can't keep track of funds
DPS In A Nutshell: Fixing That Which Is Beyond Repair, Ignoring Newer Cheaper Better Alternative
Detroit Free Press Pens Hit Piece On Charter Schools
Bob^2 wants to fix DPS, gets attacked, MSM yawns
Bob^2 Coming Down On DPS Corruption
Bob^2: Stay in DPS! Parents: No Way!
Bob^2: DPS The Greatest Challenge Of All
Freep's Mike Thompson Doesn't Get It
The DPS Special Treatment Act
Detroit News: DPS FAIL!!!
The freep Laments DPS School Closings
DPS in the News
DPS Officials Thumbing Their Noses at Bob^2?
The DPS Debacle Continues
Less Than 12 Hours Later, The DPS Fighting Begins
Oh SNAP! DPS now $306 million in the hole!
DPS to Granholm: "Uh - Now What Do We Do?"
Bob^2 to teach DPS about Corruption
DPS: "Hey buddy, can you spare $162 Million?"
Bob^2 Trying to Drain DPS Swamp
DPS may owe $36 million more
More on DPS - None of It Good
Shock! - Ex-DPS official files federal whistleblower lawsuit
Bob^2, DPS to Get Undeserved Windfall
Throwing money into the DPS hole
Bob^2 starts tally of DPS troubles
Bob^2 says: DPS deficit larger than thought
Bob Bobb (Bob^2) on a mission to save DPS
Non-Shocker of the Morning - Former DPS Head Calloway: Detroit School Board Corrupt!
DetNews: Bring 'Marine Corps' of teachers to Detroit schools
DPS to good teachers - GET OUT OF OUR SWAMP!!!
Duh! - DPS fails kids, fed school chief says
freep: DPS may need payday loans
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I agree. All schools should be privately owned and let the parents decide where their kids go. As it is now, no child should be put in a government run school. It's the same as child abuse.
I taught Religious Ed for 9 years to 7th - 12th graders who attended the highest ranking public schools in the area. Trust me on this - they were all functionally illiterate. And, as borne out by tests, the older they got the dumber they were.
That's totally spot on!
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