🚀 go-pugleaf

It looks to me like the union-controlled schools are improving
scores at respectable levels.

I wonder what is the 12 year, year-by-year scores for those
same union-controlled schools.   

If things had been going up like that for the past 12 years,
we wouldn't be having a problem with the overall accomplishments
of the Baltimore City Schools. 

If this is the first significant turn up for the "control" or
"union" schools in years, then bringing in the contractors did
a great service to Baltimore City.  It also brings suspicions
that unless there was competition, people were not paying attention
to achievement like they should have.

In any case, to decide the issue for Baltimore once and for all,
the Contractors deserve 5 years unless they really tear things 
down.  Then boot them, after we've given it an honest chance.

Teachers, like Priests, I consider a part of my community, my
neighborhood.  Union leaders, school admin folk, contractors,
and politicians -- I count the spoons before they come visit. 

Just my own stenkin opinion...


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