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4-in-5 public schools have not met federal AYP performance targets and have been deemed "failing"
The State's Gina Smith choose not to explain the sad facts, but instead simply defended Jim Rex but cut and pasting his department talking points.
The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law allows for a gradual phase-in of student performance targets.
As the national standards rise to approach the intended baseline, South Carolina's stagnant public schools fall further and further behind the performance benchmarks.
Under the terms of the phase-in, negotiated by South Carolina state bureaucrats and former State Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum several years ago, all public schools need to make steady improvement to meet their adequate yearly progress. Sadly, four of five public schools in South Carolina have failed to do that. |