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Old 07-07-2011, 06:59 AM
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What do you mean about being left to struggle?

APS actually has some of the highest funding per student in the state. The kids' homes may be poor, but the district is not. Mismanaged, almost certainly, but they've got the resources coming in. If you have an elected school board who appoints the superintendent, who comes in to save the day?

At this point, I can see the state justifying more regulation of the district, but short of this kind of investigation, how do you justify taking authority away from the elected school board, even if it's the name of preventing them from struggling?
But if *real* scores were used, wouldn't they have faced losing most of their federal funding due to NCLB? Basing funding on test scores is going to lead to things like this. I'm not justifying their behavior, just noting that people will do what they need to do to get funding if desperate.
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