Reply #61: 7% of one grade level and that is a 4% improvement from 2008.

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Most of the kids don't speak english. 90% of the kids live in poverty and the population is transient.
All I'm reading in every news article "7% aren't proficient in math!ll!"...gasp, the horror.

Well how about the break down of how many kids can speak english, how many kids are new to the 11th grade, how many kids are new to the high school. How much money is available for extra help, tutoring in english, remedial math for kids who this may be their 3rd, 4th or 5th school.

What's the backstory and how come this 7% meme has taken off, no questions asked.

I've seen this type of bulldozing approach to hide the truth too many times from right wing conservatives with an entirely different $goal$ in mind to accept these assumptions about the teachers, no questions asked, no context allowed.

As I have said Milton Friedman would be proud, create a disaster through years of neglect and then burn the place down with a blowtorch and replace it with a for profit non union system that will proceed to screw the kids at every turn.

A neo-liberal dlc, reagan democrat, gingrich republican wet dream.