America stopped caring how poor kids do in school

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America stopped caring how poor kids do in school

My local government here in DC celebrated the release of new national test score data in late January, with the District’s state superintendent of schools telling the Washington Post, “We’ve got momentum happening here in the District of Columbia, and we’re committed to building on that momentum and excited about all the work that we have yet to do.”So what’s the good news? DC saw a genuinely big improvement in our fourth-grade math scores, tyin…