1. The old saying that you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip has not been repealed, hence the gap in "achievement"
2. This report is prime evidence why the public school system should be blown up.
End public education.
Fear not. They’ll lower the standards to the point that everyone feels welcome and learned, thereby successfully further dumbing down yet another generation.
Failures gonna fail. Let them go peacefully.
I am shocked, shocked I tell ya! The public school system is why we have all these snowflakes in our lives. The system did real good breeding them to come out of it a total usefull tool for them.
Well, that idea didn't work. Let's try the other one - Low funding but high results.
There is difference in culture and IQ that no amount of money can overcome in a far left environment.
Discipline, standards and consequences work...but those ideas are now racist.
It isn’t the lack of funds that create the achievement gap. Instead, it’s the cultural gap.
Minorities, especially blacks, consider learning to be a white thing. Hence the lack of effort by them to be astute at reading and writing. The Aunt Jemima’s don’t want to be called Uncle Toms.
Easily corrected: double the salaries of the staff and teachers and replace the educational requirements with the “everyone gets a trophy” standard.
“high achievement gap of 53% between white and African-American students.”
Maybe because us crackers already lowered our expectations of playing in the NBA or NFL..
You can’t buy brains or the will to use them.
Next steps: (1) Cripple the white kids with reverse discrimination so they won’t benefit from having good parents who encourage learning. (2) Then lower academic standards for the minority students who won’t try to learn. That’ll make everyone equal.
The Bell Curve.
Ahahahahaha.
"Students of color"!
Now, I've heard it all.
Or have I?
Would I get in trouble if I ran up on some kid and said, "Hello, student of color?".
Encouraging Blacks to Culturally appropriate white behavior concerning education is RACIST !!
This is a sad story, but what these kids need is not taught at school.
“Analysis of spending in PPS and peer districts revealed potential savings for PPS in executive administration (high numbers of employees earning over $100,000), use of substitute teachers and educational assistants, health benefits, bus service, legal costs, and building utilization.
“The audit identified insufficient oversight of contracts, as well as purchasing card spending for things like staff meeting refreshments and Amazon Prime memberships. In 2017, PPS spent at least $13,000 on a retirement party to rent the Portland Spirit river cruise ship, give out crystal clock retirement gifts, and shipped in flowers from Hawaii. Another party was held in 2018.
Well, it was a great party....
a) the underperformers are less intelligent
b) the culture (to include family and home life) of the overachievers, is superior (NOT all cultures are equal)
c) the instructors are racist, incompetent, or both
Suck on that, libs.
They could spend a million dollars a person on “underachieving” students and it would not close the gap one inch. They will figure out the only way to close it is on paper, that is, just announce the gap has closed, everyone is an A student and move forward.
Proves Portland is generally racist.
Look at who Salem is hiring, and the material the teacher's colleges choose to work with.
The modern college student who should be apprenticed as a lifetime coffee barista, since he/she/it can't make change without a calculator, have been steered into ED programs for years.
As an addendum, these are the ones who are whining the loudest about having $300,000 overdue student loans.
Grades are raciss.