PR Dept Can't Say "Reading" and "Special Education"

Here's what Montgomery County taxpayers get for the $10 million +/- MCPS Public Relations Department. 


This is the last sentence from one of the October 6, 2010, MCPS press releases: 

"...Eight of the 10 high schools that did not make AYP missed it based on the performance of just one subgroup of students."

What's the missing name of the "subgroup?"

SPECIAL EDUCATION

And 9 of the 10 high schools that did not make AYP missed it based on their performance in

READING

We can't have "courageous conversations" about our public schools if our school system can't spit out the words that need to be discussed. 


Remember that these are "Jerry's kids" that are now in high school. They are the students that had the benefit of the reading programs that Superintendent Weast implemented in elementary schools. 


In 2005, a leading national reading expert was concerned about Superintendent Jerry Weast's reading program.  Here is what G. Reid Lyon had to say,

 "I wish I had more confidence in his reading data."

You can read the full e-mail here. 

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