Posted on 09/13/2014 12:17:37 PM PDT by george76
All four Harlem Success Academy charters serve primarily minority student populations (all are 93.5 to 97.1% black and Hispanic) and low-income households (75 to 80% of students at these schools qualify for free or discounted lunch), and yet all are ranked academically higher than about 97% of all schools in New York state based on 2013-2014 standardized test assessments in math and reading.
What a truly amazing academic success story! Harlem Success Academy 3, an elementary school where 95.2% of the students are black or Hispanic and 80% are from poor households who qualify for free or discounted lunch, performed better on standardized reading and math tests than 99.5% of all elementary schools in the state.
Q1: With those kinds of impressive, eye-popping academic results for some of the city’s most at-risk student populations in Harlem, couldn’t that proven record of academic success be replicated in all public schools? Wouldn’t you think that these Harlem charter schools would be recognized as academic models for the rest of the city and the state? After all, the students at all four of the Success Academy charter schools in Harlem are performing at the same or higher level as students in the tony and upscale Scarsdale school district
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The Success Academy charter schools are run by Eva Moskowitz, and her network of charter schools hire only non-union teachers, who are paid well but can be fired for non-performance. So the New York City teacher unions hate Eva Moskowitz despite her “off-the-charts success” ... Likewise, instead of being thrilled that so many of the city’s low-income, minority students are being educated so successfully, the new New York mayor Bill de Blasio hates charter schools just as much as the entrenched teacher unions (who are a main part of his political base of support)
(Excerpt) Read more at aei-ideas.org ...
Despite proven academic success of NYC’s charter schools, the mayor and unions are waging a war on city’s charter kids
Their crime is that they are selective and they are disciplined, which by definition is “raisis” or something.
I believe the problem is the success of the schools creates a “why can’t you do this as well?” question of the public schools in the community. Of course they could if they applied brainwork, and self discipline rather then self serviance, raping, and pillaging of the system by the Union leadership.
The Unions priorities are for the leadership of the unions, and the teachers, NOT for the education of the children.
For that matter everything Socialist is for those that lead the movement, and their loyalist of minions.
You folks don’t get it!!! Shucks, African-Americans don’t get it!!! These liberal, Obamabot bozos want to keep minorities in economic slavery, poorly educated captivity, and lack of opportunity skills!!! It’s all a game endorsed by Black political leaders from Obama on down through the CBC, The NAACP, their ministers, their pastors, and the Obamabot Democrat Party!!! It’s insured political power, led by greed!!!
Until minorities, including African-Americans get it.....they will continue adrift-at-sea, without a paddle!!! One...hopes they wakup one day, and see they have been royally screwed and dumped under the bus....time and time again by their own useless, evil and harmful leaders!!! Hello....Obama is your enemy!!!
The majority of the people voted for this COMMUNIST. Now let them stew in their own juice. Yep, they were warned many times of what will happen if they elected this communist, and they chose not to listen. I’m willing to bet that the parents of these school kids also voted for this MAYOR
For the communist government to continue too exist they need as many as possible to remain ignorant and poor.
Public schools ping
Gotta keep those blacks on the Democratic plantation. You get blacks out there like Dr Ben Carson and mess up the master plan. Now Hispanics, line up, the man is opening up a Democratic Hacienda just for you.
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