{"id":5102,"date":"2009-07-17T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T11:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2009-07-17T06:47:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T11:47:54","slug":"you-dont-do-business-against-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5102","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Take Sides Against The Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy – an Islam-based charter school in Inver Grove Heights – is\u00a0 taking the state education bureaucracy to court<\/a> over its curious penchant for choosing bureaucratic ticket-punching over children, education and results:<\/p>\n

Officials at the Minnesota Department of Education told Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) last month that they would recommend withholding $1.4 million in public funding from the school as a result of licensure violations, according to a lawsuit filed by the school Thursday in Ramsey County District Court.<\/p>\n

But TiZA claims that state officials have refused to provide the school with public records related to the state’s investigation of the alleged violations, and that without them the school can’t properly defend itself as it appeals the decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About a dozen TIZA teachers are not, it is claimed, properly licensed.<\/p>\n

Well, shut that place down.<\/p>\n

Of course, in the last round of No Child Left Behind testing, 93% of TIZA’s kids passed the Math competency test – about double the rate at the Saint Paul or Minneapolis public schools – and 68% the reading test (compared to about half in Minneapolis and Saint Paul) – even though they’re all duly licensed, just like any good plumber or barber.<\/p>\n

And yet 93% of TIZA\u2019s students passed the Math test, and 68% the reading test – compared again to Saint Paul (46 and 52% for math and reading) and Minneapolis (48 and 51%). \u00a0 And yet 80% of its students are low-income, and 68% speak English as a second language – vastly “worse” than both of the major metro school districts.<\/p>\n

But who cares about results, when the big secret – teachers licensing is worthless – could be getting out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy – an Islam-based charter school in Inver Grove Heights – is\u00a0 taking the state education bureaucracy to court over its curious penchant for choosing bureaucratic ticket-punching over children, education and results: Officials at the Minnesota Department of Education told Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) last month that they would recommend withholding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}