Mayoral control is not the issue; MC brought us a much higher graduation rate but post secondary performance has not improved.
So is the goal of this system to get its students out with a diploma regardless of how capable they are for post secondary work, or is the goal to prepare students for post secondary success.
If post secondary success is the goal, mayoral control has not succeeded. I’m not at all suggesting a return to the past, I am merely saying that when students leave this system, they are overwhelmingly headed for less than satisfactory results.
Barely a quarter of students earn a 2 year degree after FOUR years of college! Yes, they did earn a HS diploma but is it worth anything?
This was part of the topic I helped deliver to students who attend college in New Haven last week: what is the goal of your k-12 system?
Mayoral control is not the issue; MC brought us a much higher graduation rate but post secondary performance has not improved.
So is the goal of this system to get its students out with a diploma regardless of how capable they are for post secondary work, or is the goal to prepare students for post secondary success.
If post secondary success is the goal, mayoral control has not succeeded. I’m not at all suggesting a return to the past, I am merely saying that when students leave this system, they are overwhelmingly headed for less than satisfactory results.
Barely a quarter of students earn a 2 year degree after FOUR years of college! Yes, they did earn a HS diploma but is it worth anything?
This was part of the topic I helped deliver to students who attend college in New Haven last week: what is the goal of your k-12 system?