EDITORIAL: Raimondo’s Providence School Move
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
One thing we know for sure, Providence can’t fix Providence Schools.
For decades, Mayors have avoided the municipal third rail issue of Providence schools like it is a concoction comprised of mad cow disease, bird flu, and a flesh-eating disease.
Providence Mayors don’t talk about the schools and they certainly don’t send their children to the schools.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTProvidence schools are the ultimate perversion. Supported by hundreds of millions of dollars in municipal, state and federal tax funding, they produce outcomes that seem to be statistically impossible. Watching Judge Judy may be more intellectually rewarding.
As GoLocal unveiled last October, Providence school performances are disturbing.
Here are seven alarming data points from Providence schools, but sadly seventy or seven hundred statistics could be extrapolated -- each more disappointing than the next:
— Just 3 percent of 8th graders are proficient in math.
— At Mount Pleasant High School, 9th grade English proficiency is just 7 percent and Algebra I proficiency is just 3 percent.
— At Central High School, Algebra I proficiency is 2 percent.
— Hope High School’s proficiencies are 1 percent in Algebra 1, 3 percent in English and 5 percent in geometry.
— And, at the new Evolutions High School — a “small, tight-knit learning community built upon personalized learning and restorative practices,” realized no student proficient at Algebra I.
Governor Gina Raimondo and newly appointed Commissioner of Angélica Infante-Green should have a go at Providence schools. We hope that the entrenched interests will stand aside. They have proven that their efforts are ineffective at best and self-focused at worst.
We strongly support the Governor’s effort to improve Providence’s schools and the future of its children.
Imagine…just imagine if Providence had great schools.
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