{"id":2844,"date":"2012-10-15T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2012-10-15T05:33:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:33:38","slug":"racial-goals-for-maths-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2844","title":{"rendered":"Racial goals for maths and reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post.<\/p>\n

The plan has infuriated many community activists in Palm Beach County and across the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo expect less from one demographic and more from another is just a little off-base,\u201d Juan Lopez, magnet coordinator at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Riviera Beach, told the Palm Beach Post.<\/p>\n

JFK Middle has a black student population of about 88 percent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur kids, although they come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, they still have the ability to learn,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cTo dumb down the expectations for one group, that seems a little unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others in the community agreed with Lopez\u2019s assessment. But the Florida Department of Education said the goals recognize that not every group is starting from the same point and are meant to be ambitious but realistic.<\/p>\n

As an example, the percentage of white students scoring at or above grade level (as measured by whether they scored a 3 or higher on the reading FCAT) was 69 percent in 2011-2012, according to the state. For black students, it was 38 percent, and for Hispanics, it was 53 percent.<\/p>\n

In addition, State Board of Education Chairwoman Kathleen Shanahan said that setting goals for different subgroups was needed to comply with terms of a waiver that Florida and 32 other states have from some provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. These waivers were used to make the states independent from some federal regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have set a very high goal for all students to reach in Florida,\u201d Shanahan said.<\/p>\n

But Palm Beach County School Board vice-chairwoman Debra Robinson isn\u2019t buying the rationale.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m somewhere between complete and utter disgust and anger and disappointment with humanity,\u201d Robinson told the Post. She said she has been receiving complaints from upset black and Hispanic parents since the state board took its action this week.<\/p>\n

Robinson called the state board\u2019s actions essentially \u201cproclaiming racism\u201d and said she wants Palm Beach County to continue to educate every child with the same expectations, regardless of race. – CBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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