The Anonymous
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The best schools in New York state are again charter schools.
According to the most recent data from School Digger, a website that aggregates test score results, 23 of the top 30 schools in New York in 2019 were charters.
Those schools sported student bodies that were more than 80% black and Hispanic, and some two-thirds of the kids qualified for free or discount lunches.
The Empire State’s results were reflected nationally. In a U.S. News & World Report ranking released the same year, three of the top 10 public high schools in the country were charters, as were 23 of the top 100—even though charters made up only 10% of the nation’s 24,000 public high schools.
We are told constantly by defenders of the education status quo that the learning gap is rooted in poverty, segregation and “systemic” racism.
We’re told that blaming traditional public schools for substandard student outcomes isn’t fair given the raw material that teachers have to work with.
But if a student’s economic background is so decisive, or if black students need to be seated next to whites to understand Shakespeare and geometry, how can it be that so many of the most successful public schools are dominated by low-income minorities?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/have-teachers-unions-finally-overplayed-their-hand-11612912653?mod=opinion_major_pos9