{"id":371,"date":"2006-10-12T20:04:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/10\/12\/milwaukee-public-schools-failing-its-students\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:51:41","slug":"milwaukee-public-schools-failing-its-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/milwaukee-public-schools-failing-its-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Public Schools – Failing Its Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that many students in MPS are repeating grades…<\/p>\n

As of September 25, Milwaukee Public Schools had 9,000 students in ninth grade. Freshmen. Kids who are usually 14, going on 15 years old.<\/p>\n

3,000 of those ninth graders were in ninth grade for at least the second<\/strong> time.<\/p>\n

636 of those ninth graders were at least 17 years old<\/strong>. That’s right. 7% of the ninth graders are at least three years “behind” in school<\/strong>. (The discussion in the Journal Sentinel <\/a>says that they’re two years behind. But I can do math. 17 minus the typical age of 14 at the beginning of the school year in September is 3 years.)<\/p>\n

Of the 636 who are so far behind, 64% are boys.<\/p>\n

Of the 636 who are so far behind, 30% have been labeled “special needs”.<\/p>\n

The best part about this report… The Journal Sentinel says that “several major attempts to improve success at the eighth- and ninth-grade levels have not yielded dramatic improvement.”<\/p>\n

Apparently the billions that we’ve been pumping into public education haven’t been too effective. Clearly, money is not the answer.<\/p>\n

And they wonder why School Choice is so important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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