The latest national academic tests tell us again that California’s public schools aren’t doing a very good job of educating more than 6 million youngsters.
Once again, California finds itself in the bottom tier, with New Mexico and Alabama, in theNational Assessment of Educational Progress tests of fourth- and eighth-graders in math and English.
But if our schools aren’t performing particularly well, those who run the schools are again demonstrating their unmatched ability to make excuses for failure.
In the past, their rationales have included inadequate financing and having to contend with a student population heavily weighted toward poor and English-learner students.
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