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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by yardie on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:15PM (#27607987)
A couple years back is 2019. I'm not sure you know how schools work but suddenly pumping money in doesn't dramatically increase test scores the next fiscal quarter. I think nearly everyone agrees public schools could use more funding, the debates tend to be about "on what and how much."
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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by WalterBright on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:40PM (#27608333)
I looked it up, it was fully in place by summer 2018.

P.S. I didn't say "dramatically". I said "zero" improvement. Doing better than zero is as low a bar as possible. I fail to see that as unreasonable. There isn't even a plan for success.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by UncleOxidant on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:02PM (#27608619)
But note that 2020/2021 school years where heavily disrupted by covid. Let's take a look back in a few years to see how they're doing, I'm not sure we can make many inferences from the limited data so far.
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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by WalterBright on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:23PM (#27608861)
There's not even a progress report after it being fully in place for 1.5 school years.

Nothing at all has changed.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by yardie on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:25PM (#27609799)
What exactly were you expecting? I assume you aren't an educator.

Education is a process with a decade long pipeline. Simply doubling the budget doesn't turn into 2x brighter kids.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by WalterBright on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:13PM (#27611761)
I agree that expecting 2x improvement in a year and a half is unreasonable. But I didn't say 2x improvement.

I said zero progress. Something greater than zero should be achievable in 1.5 yeras.

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