GOVERNMENT EDUCRATS GATHER IN THE HOLY CITY …
A group of government educrats will gather in Charleston, S.C. this week for a “community forum” on the Palmetto State’s achievement gap – which is the term used to describe the comparatively poor academic performance of low-income, mostly black children at South Carolina’s government-run schools.
The forum – sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Charleston Area and the government-subsidized College of Charleston – will feature as its keynote speaker Tammy Pawloski. She’s the director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching Children of Poverty, which is located on the campus of another government-run school – Francis Marion University, Florence, S.C.
Yeah … things are so bad in the Palmetto State we have a “Center for Excellence in Teaching Children of Poverty.”
Joining Pawloski at this “forum?” Three Lowcountry educrat leaders – Gerrita Postlewaite; superintendent of Charleston County’s government-run school system; Brenda Blackburn, superintendent of Berkeley County’s government-run school system and Glenn Huggins, an assistant superintendent in Dorchester County, S.C.
That’s a lot of taxpayer salaries in one room, huh?
The achievement gap we’re more concerned with? The fact low-income students in Florida (which has embraced market-based reforms) are outperforming South Carolina’s average scores.
Anyway, assuming you want to hear these status quo apologists demand more of your money for more government programs, this forum will be held on Wednesday, March 16 at 6:00 p.m. EDT in the Stern Center Ballroom (71 George Street) on the campus of the College of Charleston.
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South Carolina’s graduation rate is higher than Florida’s (80% versus 77%) (SC: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/education/2015/11/18/south-carolina-graduation-rates-climb/76011906/) (FL: http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7584/urlt/Historical-Graduation-Rate-Graph.pdf)
South Carolina’s SAT average is 5 points lower than Florida’s: http://blog.prepscholar.com/average-sat-scores-by-state-most-recent
South Carolina’s cost per pupil is $1,000 more: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html However, Florida has “pay for play” for all extra curricular activities.
While I’d like to have the $1,000 per pupil back (roughly 700,000 students in public schools in South Carolina ) I don’t know that Florida is doing all that much better.
The easiest way to eliminate the achievement gap is to lower the performance of white, middle and upper class students. Don’t think they haven’t tried. “Reforms” such as “Common Core”, which make it more difficult for educated parents to help their children, serve the levelers purpose.
The whole purpose of modern education “reform” is to turn teaching into a profession as opposed to a mission. To do this they must minimize the influence of parents. “Reforms” that confuse and alienate parents serves that purpose. The added benefit is that it minimizes some of the advantages children of educated well off parents have.
100+
Water always seeks its level
If the Educrat Cockroaches don’t like the current level, they simply dig a few new holes
Given the fact that South Carolina has been digging Education holes nonstop since 1954 there is a good chance our grand-kids’ grand-kids will be speaking Chinese
I have “cream of sum yung guy” if intrested.
Uh…..isn’t Francis Marion responsible for giving that idiot Grand Tango his English degree? That is also where he met Pogo (as a foreign exchange student from Ohio). FMU is where that brain trust was formed.
When will the committee be investigating the achievement gap in the NBA?
so cool!