Former president, George Drinksalot, would have. And did.
Remember Rod Paige, Bush's choice to head Education in 2001 because of his "Houston Miracle"? The "miracle" that turned out to be...more conservative bullshit?
"The claims catapulted Houston's superintendent, Rod Paige, to Washington as education secretary and made Texas a model for the country. <Let that one sink in for a moment...> ...But an examination of the performance of students in Houston by The New York Times raises serious doubts about the magnitude of those gains. Scores on a national exam that Houston students took alongside the Texas exam from 1999 to 2002 showed much smaller gains and falling scores in high school reading.
Compared with the rest of the country, Houston's gains ...were modest. The improvements in middle and elementary school were a fraction of those depicted by the Texas test and were similar to those posted on the Stanford test by students in Los Angeles.
Over all, a comparison of the performance of Houston students ... showed most did not advance in relation to their counterparts across the nation. More than half of them either remained in the same place or lost ground in reading and math."
Paige should have been fired immediately or resigned. Neither happened. The Worst President Evar™! looked the other way.
Texas. Republicans. Bah!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/us/a-miracle-revisited-measuring-success-gains-in-houston-schools-how-real-are-they.html
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