To: tejek who wrote (553957 ) 3/9/2010 5:25:16 PM From: Brumar89 1 Recommendation Respond to Charter School Success in Harlem. Who'd Object? Nationwide, the average black 12th grader reads at the level of a white eighth grader. Yet Harlem charter students at schools like KIPP and Democracy Prep are outperforming their white peers in wealthy suburbs. At the Promise Academy charter schools, 97% of third graders scored at or above grade level in math. At Harlem Village Academy, 100% of eighth graders aced the state science exam. Every third grader at Harlem Success Academy 1, operated by Ms. Moskowitz, passed the state math exam, and 71% of them achieved the top score. More than 7,000 children are on wait lists.who could object to more charter schools? Easy question. The United Federation of Teachers and its political acolytes in the New York state legislature are hell-bent on blocking school choice for underprivileged families. Worried that high-performing charters are "saturating" Harlem, State Sen. Bill Perkins and State Assemblyman Keith Wright have backed legislation that would gut state per-pupil funding at charter schools and allow a single charter operator to educate no more than 5% of a district's students. Unions dislike charter schools because many aren't organized. But how does limiting the replication of successful public education models benefit ghetto kids?The entire "progressive" worldview is built on their own sense of moral supremacy. Stories like this one put the lie to these pretensions. Most of the ills that plague society, and which are always laid at the feet of capitalism, begin with a substandard education courtesy of your local teachers union. The teachers unions feed the welfare state, giving the lives of "progressives" meaning. They provide the fodder for what leftists are fond of calling the "prison-industrial complex". Once educated, the "underclass" has no need of the marxist and his drivel, so the left works tirelessly to undermine the potential of millions of children while pretending that their efforts represent only caring and compassion. They are the agents of despair. mjperry.blogspot.com
