Every child deserves an equal opportunity to a quality education, and that can happen if parents and business leaders demand that legislators pass school choice programs to give kids a fighting chance, writes davetrabert.
rban Preparatory Academy in Wichita is a private K-through-eight school that serves low-income and mixed-income students. Most students attend on scholarships provided through a tax credit scholarship program for low-income students, which is the only school choice program available in Kansas.
Public school officials enthusiastically declare their devotion to ending racism and discrimination, yet they perpetuate race-based and income-based educational discrimination in the results they achieve. Black eighth graders are nearly three years’ worth of learning behind white students in reading across the nation. That’s been relatively unchanged over the last 20 years. Here in Kansas, low-income fourth graders are reading 2.7 years behind other students, and it is getting worse.
Legislators provided more than $5 billion of additional funding since 2005 to improve outcomes for low-income students and those considered academically at risk. But school district management blithely ignored state law and spent the money as they wished. The state board of education’s reaction to the audit is even more telling. After a scathing editorial by the, the state board of education president wrote a response that essentially said, “Shut up. Go away. We know what we’re doing.
Academics are being shoved aside by diversity, equity, and inclusion. Proficiency improvement is absent from the Department of Education’s five outcomes for measuring progress for accreditation, but social/emotional growth tops the list.
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