{"id":57642,"date":"2016-03-04T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57642"},"modified":"2016-03-03T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T13:45:20","slug":"they-dont-give-participation-trophies-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57642","title":{"rendered":"They Don’t Give Participation Trophies For Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis and St. Paul schools continue to fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of school districts in the state are not making significant progress in closing achievement gaps, including the state\u2019s largest urban districts, Minneapolis and St. Paul.<\/p>\n

All Minnesota school districts and charter schools are required to improve reading and math test scores, boost graduation rates and cut achievement gaps for all students, under a state law passed in 2013.<\/p>\n

But in its first progress report, the Minnesota Department of Education says that many are not meeting their targets.<\/p>\n

If they do not meet their goals by the 2017-18 school year, some of their state funding could be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Not to worry. \u00a0They’ll find a way to keep the parts of the machine that matter – the parts that pay dues back to Education Minnesota and thence the DFL – funded one way or another).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Minnesota media is parroting the schools’ line that graduation rates are “rising”, albeit slowly<\/a>. \u00a0 This, a year after they rapturously reported<\/a> a big jump.<\/p>\n

Unmentioned; we got a big jump after Minnesota dropped its graduation testing<\/a>. \u00a0 So\u00a0of course\u00a0<\/em>we had a big jump one year, followed by a trickle of “improvement” since then.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news that’s probably related? \u00a0They also lowered the standards to get a GED. \u00a0So that’s looking better now, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis and St. Paul schools continue to fail. Hundreds of school districts in the state are not making significant progress in closing achievement gaps, including the state\u2019s largest urban districts, Minneapolis and St. Paul. All Minnesota school districts and charter schools are required to improve reading and math test scores, boost graduation rates and cut […]<\/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-57642","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\/57642","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=57642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57873,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57642\/revisions\/57873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}