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Obama admin spent billions of Stimulus funds on failing schools, achieved squat
Posted by:
Failerer3
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Date: January 21, 2017 10:11PM
Obama administration spent billions on failing schools, achieved nothing
POSTED AT 5:31 PM ON JANUARY 21, 2017
Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, aka the stimulus, was a multi-billion dollar commitment to improve failing schools through targeted grants. These School Improvement Grants (SIG) were given out to schools that agreed to adopt one of four approved models for improvement. Wednesday, two days before President Obama left office, the Education Department published a study on its website showing the expenditure of $7 billion dollars on these grants accomplished nothing.
The full report, which calls the grants, “one of the largest federal government investments in an education grant program,” can be found here. It’s a lengthy report but the conclusion on student test scores and graduation rates is relatively brief:
"There were no significant impacts of SIG-funded models on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment of students in schools at the SIG eligibility cutoff… For 2012–2013, the impact on math test scores was 0.01 standard deviations, the impact on reading test scores was 0.08 standard deviations, and the impact on high school graduation was -5 percentage points, but these impacts were not statistically significant."
POSTED AT 5:31 PM ON JANUARY 21, 2017
Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, aka the stimulus, was a multi-billion dollar commitment to improve failing schools through targeted grants. These School Improvement Grants (SIG) were given out to schools that agreed to adopt one of four approved models for improvement. Wednesday, two days before President Obama left office, the Education Department published a study on its website showing the expenditure of $7 billion dollars on these grants accomplished nothing.
The full report, which calls the grants, “one of the largest federal government investments in an education grant program,” can be found here. It’s a lengthy report but the conclusion on student test scores and graduation rates is relatively brief:
"There were no significant impacts of SIG-funded models on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment of students in schools at the SIG eligibility cutoff… For 2012–2013, the impact on math test scores was 0.01 standard deviations, the impact on reading test scores was 0.08 standard deviations, and the impact on high school graduation was -5 percentage points, but these impacts were not statistically significant."
Re: Obama admin spent billions of Stimulus funds on failing schools, achieved squat
Posted by:
Obobo-the irrelevant nigger
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Date: January 22, 2017 12:08AM
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Re: Obama admin spent billions of Stimulus funds on failing schools, achieved squat
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
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Date: January 22, 2017 12:43AM
Except for the fact that Obama had the highest high school graduation rate in the history of this country. You said nothing and that's a pretty big thing.
Re: Obama admin spent billions of Stimulus funds on failing schools, achieved squat
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George W. Bush
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Date: January 22, 2017 12:51AM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Except for the fact that Obama had the highest
> high school graduation rate in the history of this
> country. You said nothing and that's a pretty big
> thing.
You're welcome.
"In its release of the data, the department also plugged its priorities for replacing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – more commonly known as No Child Left Behind – with a law that "not only ensures students are prepared for college, careers and life, but also delivers on the promise of equity and real opportunity for every child."
Although the sweeping education law has been widely criticized as a flawed and outdated piece of legislation that placed too much emphasis on testing, legislators have credited No Child Left Behind with bringing a focus to the achievement of student of different races and backgrounds. Before its enactment in 2002, schools were not required to separate data on student academic progress by race and ethnicity, English proficiency and disability status."
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> Except for the fact that Obama had the highest
> high school graduation rate in the history of this
> country. You said nothing and that's a pretty big
> thing.
You're welcome.
"In its release of the data, the department also plugged its priorities for replacing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – more commonly known as No Child Left Behind – with a law that "not only ensures students are prepared for college, careers and life, but also delivers on the promise of equity and real opportunity for every child."
Although the sweeping education law has been widely criticized as a flawed and outdated piece of legislation that placed too much emphasis on testing, legislators have credited No Child Left Behind with bringing a focus to the achievement of student of different races and backgrounds. Before its enactment in 2002, schools were not required to separate data on student academic progress by race and ethnicity, English proficiency and disability status."