(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Must read story from the Dallas Morning News. Important piece of context that the DMN failed to mention: DISD has been an academic train wreck for decades, especially for African-Americans. A quick look at Texas Education Agency reports reveals that only 5.1% of DISD African-Americans received a “criterion score” on the SAT or ACT, which if memory serves would qualify the student to attend a moderately selective university.
The story contains multiple hints of battles over patronage, and academically, it is hard for me to think of thousands of African-American children going to school somewhere other than DISD as anything less than a net positive. If the Texas legislature were to improve the state’s charter school law, and to pass measures to create private choice options, it would be the equivalent of sending a rescue flotilla to the Titanic.
[...] students have done poorly in Dallas schools, writes Matthew Ladner on Jay Greene’s [...]