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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (135650)8/11/2013 5:18:57 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Well you see what you are are doing here is providing an argument for a way for kids to get out of welfare (Schools like Garfield in Seattle), but then refusing to hold that solution up to scrutiny.

If schools like Garfield are the answer according to you, why wouldn't you want the data to show whether they are actually working or not for the welfare kids?

Surely that country (Kings(?) must keep HS graduation rates and probably the number of kids receiving free government subsidized lunches. That would be a start don't you think in getting the answer?

The next would be test scores. How many kids at Garfield are reading above/below grade level and what are the neighborhood economic levels feeding kids to Garfield?

All that kind of data would start to take our discussion out of opinion into something that was measurable.

And this is what the policy makers will have to look at if there are proponents advocating for building/setting up these kind of high power schools you are talking about. Whether these schools actually get kids to graduate with enough skills to get them out of their situation is what they are going to want to know and the proponents of such an idea, like yourself, are going to have supply the data to convince them to go forward.
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