http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/already_hearing_footsteps_hv70gEUDCj3FouvwtSiAiL
President Obama must be really scared of Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- given that it is more than a year before the election and Perry isn’t even the Republican nominee. Why else would the White House be just making stuff up about him?
Consider Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s claims against Texas schools.
According to Duncan, Texas’ school system has “really struggled” during the 12 years that Perry has been in office.
“Far too few of their high-school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college,” Duncan told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt. “I feel very, very badly for the children there.”
Huh?
As education policy wonk Andrew Rotherham pointed out to Duncan in a previously scheduled interview, Texas is basically average when it comes to test scores and graduation rates.
“Texas students scored right around the national averages in reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress,” he wrote online.
“And according to an Aug. 17 report by the group that administers the ACT college-admissions exam, Texas high-school graduates only narrowly trail national averages for college readiness,” he found.
“True, the national averages aren’t great, but Texas is right there with the pack.”
Duncan had no real response to the facts.
