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K-12 in action
h/t Gates of ViennaWhen all 164 of Washington D.C. Frank W. Ballou Senior High School’s graduating seniors last year applied for and were accepted to college, the whole community - students, teachers, administrators, parents, and education reformers - had reason to celebrate the achievements of these obviously hard-working graduates. With a graduating class the school system considered "academically disadvantaged," someone in the school district should have smelled a rat. After all, 98 percent of Ballou’s 930 students were African-Americans, and two percent were Hispanic/Latino, according to data from the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) system. One hundred percent of them were considered "academically disadvantaged" by the system. Kids like this deserve the great opportunity that a high-quality, character-building education can help provide. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-11 |
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