Star Tribune
Minnesota has spent more than $5 billion in the last decade to boost the academic performance of low-achieving students, but the state has little ability to assess how the money is being used — or whether it’s making a difference.
By one measure, it’s not. Stark differences in average reading and math scores for low-income students and their wealthier peers, and for whites and students of color, have remained stagnant or worsened during the past 10 years. More
“You can’t fix stupid.”
You’ve been falsely elevating grades for years now and the idiots still can’t pass?
this is the state that elects congresswomen that married their brothers
… no surprise here
Quit telling minority students that they don’t have a fair shake and everyone hates them. And quit the institutional brow beating of white students and guilting them for their heritage.
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – HA!!
Don’tcha know? eh?
5,000,000,000 DOLLARS.
Where did it go???
Whisky Tango Foxtrot.
“You can’t fix stupid.”
You can’t mainstream it either!
But that’s what’s been happening this century with Political Correctness. They mix slow and disabled kids in with the rest of the kids like everybody is equal instead of separating them so that the slow kids may receive the attention that they need and the others are allowed to learn at a faster pace.
Children who come from families who value education (whether the family is poor or rich, immigrant or American) always do better than their peers. This is something which I have observed since entering Grade 1 (back in 1958, the dark ages).
This is like throwing welfare money at a ghetto.
Values at home are what matter. Tbe base that votes for the likes of omar and tlaib have none worthy of being brought into the US. These people were brought in by obama. No surprise then, their values suck.
The single most important factor in educational success is parental involvement and encouragement of it.
That’s more important than even IQ is, uninvolved parents can turn out high IQ but uneducated children who don’t give a whit about achieving in school.
School vouchers will help solve the problem by allowing kids who are poor to go to good schools and get away from the feral scum that holds them back from doing well in school by accusing excellent students of being an Uncle Tom.
“School districts qualify for basic skills aid based on the number — and concentration — of students in poverty and English-language learners who attend their schools. Most districts receive at least some compensatory aid, with allotments ranging from $100 to more than $3,000 per student in poverty.”
“This year, for example, St. Paul Public Schools received more compensatory aid — more than $68 million — than any other district, adding up to nearly $2,800 per student in poverty. Minneapolis Public Schools received more than $57 million, or about $2,700 per qualifying student. On the other hand, the Rosemount-Apple-Valley-Eagan district, the state’s fourth-largest, received just over $6 million, or about $1,000 per student in poverty. In Minnetonka, the total was $146,000, or about $237 per student.”
Throwing money at a problem rarely solves it.
$5 Billion later they discover….
not everything is 100% equal. Thy could’ve spent $20 on THE BELL CURVE and saved everyone a ton of money.
…pretty sure adding non-English speaking inbred Somalis who refuse to assimilate into the mix isn’t helping your Bell Curve out any, just sayin’…
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JUNE 2, 2019 AT 6:56 PM
“5,000,000,000 DOLLARS.
Where did it go???”
…Democrat corruption, mostly, gotta refill what the Clintons stole SOMEHOW…
With the swamp/left/islamists in charge of education, the new passing grade will be .01%. Even obama would make the grade.
There’s a congressional district in Michigan that needs to be nuked.