Now this is good news. I know some schools, mine included have already been doing this but the more kids we can make sure start the day with a meal the better.
This on the other hand is just news.
From the Times Union:
The most surprising
finding, he (Trey Csar, president of the Jacksonville Public education fund) said, came from a new question on the poll: People were asked to
guess Duval County schools graduation rate.
The guesses ranged
broadly and averaged to 61 percent. That’s far lower than reality - 74 percent
in 2013-14, the last year of data. Vitti said he expects the rate for the Class
of 2014-15 to be higher.
Csar said he doesn’t
know why people assume Duvals’ graduation rate is worse than it is, considering
that on-time graduates have increased steadily for Duval each year in recent
years and were last at 62 percent in 2011.
“They’re four years
behind reality,” he said. “That points to a sizable perception gap in how the
community views schools.”
He said Duval needs to
do a better job trumpeting its graduation rate.
“The district doesn’t
have to spin anything; they can just use the facts,” he said.
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2015-12-01/story/poll-shows-more-duval-residents-stand-ready-raise-school-taxeshttp://www.jaxpef.org/news/2015-public-education-perceptions-poll/?utm_source=hootsuite
Trey Csar seems really excited about this and I might be too except graduation rates are up and up tremendously everywhere, literally everywhere.
There are a bunch of reasons why and where I get it, lets acknowledge it, it's really not that special when everyone is doing it.
Furthermore Csar might not know it but graduation rates don't always correlate to a quality education but hey lets have a party anyways right?
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