Sunday, August 29, 2004
Running the Country Like Enron
Trouble with "charter schools" doing poorly?
Just like Enron, our CEO President's Administration acts quickly to get different, more favorable numbers:
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From the New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools.
Just like Enron, our CEO President's Administration acts quickly to get different, more favorable numbers:
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 - The Department of Education is sharply cutting back on the information it collects about charter schools for a periodic report that provides a detailed national profile of public, private and charter schools.
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In an e-mail message, Susan Aspey, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, said the decision to switch to a random sample had been made in the first year of the Bush administration "for technical reasons."
"There is nothing sinister or untoward about this," Ms. Aspey wrote, adding, "We are absolutely not cutting back on collecting information on charter schools."
