Unsuccessful challengers in the 2014 Montgomery County Council and school board elections have been utterly vindicated by an "alarming" new report that shows Montgomery County Public Schools have continued their decline since the incumbents were reelected.
Not only had MCPS students' performance declined between 2010 and 2014, but the achievement gap between white/Asian students, and their African-American and Latino counterparts, grew. Local media outlets papered over those facts, and promoted and endorsed the incumbents despite their failures on education and other areas.
Now we find that - after the voters were assured "Everything is Awesome" by incumbents and their backers in the media and county political machine - the numbers have gotten even worse since Election Day 2014.
"Montgomery County students lost ground in Algebra and showed no improvement or lagged slightly on five other key measures of math and reading performance," The Washington Post reported yesterday.
Since the reelection of the County Council and BOE, only 50% of county students were able to attain a grade higher than D in Algebra I, the report showed.
"Troubling". "Shockingly bad". "Deplorable." "This cannot continue".
Yet it does, and will, until the media and political machine are forced to stand down by their own utter failure. And until voters begin to actually do their homework, and elect candidates who bring new, different and innovative ideas about education, early education, poverty and the achievement gap to the table.
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