More taxpayers’ money and lowered expectations are Jim Rex’s miracle cure for all that ails children in South Carolina.
Last Wednesday the taxpayer-funded publicity presses in Columbia were churning out spin at full steam.
The Department of Education proudly announced that public preschool programs in South Carolina earned “high ratings” in a 50-state study conducted by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER).
Speaking in his characteristically vague political platitudes, Superintendent Rex offering the following un-insightful commentary:
“The new NIEER report shows us how far we’ve come in South Carolina, but it also demonstrates how far we still have to go,” said State Superintendent of Education Rex. “It is absolutely essential that we expand our early childhood offerings, especially to children from low-come families who are at-risk for success. It’s just the right thing to do. To do otherwise shortchanges our young people and jeopardizes the future of our state.”
Naturally, Rex made no mention of the “shortchanging” effects of a 55% on-time high school graduation rate, the sinking standardized test scores, and growing racial- and income- correlated achievement gaps that distinguish his monolithic K-12 public school system as the nation’s worst. Continue reading
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