time for the hits and misses of the week. jason riley. paul, this is a miss for the ucla civil rights organization. the left is obsessed with the racial make-up of the schools i wish they were just as obsessed with whether kids are learning. charter schools tend to out perform the neighborhood schools and are some of the best schools in the country and show that black kids to not need to sit next to white kids to learn. which is good thing. a double miss to okay cupid they led a boycott of mozilla, because they donated money to a same-sex initiative.
time for our hits and misses of the week. this is a miss for the ucla civil rights project which put out a study criticizing charter schools for being too racially segregated. the left is obsessed with the racial make-up of our schools. i wish they were just as obsessed with whether kids are learning. charter schools tend to outperform the neighborhood schools and are among the best public schools in the country. they show black kids don t need to be sitting next to white kids in order to learn, which i think is a good thing. james. a double miss to okay cupid the dating website and mozilla, the maker of the fire fox browser. ok led a fight against mozilla
we now have expanded to the largest international baccalaureate program, and according to the university of chicago, it s the best for college training is this where public school is going, everything application-based? you have to apply to whatever school you want to go to? no. you know, chuck, i m going to get you a one-way ticket out of washington. you need to get out of the thin air. it s affecting your brain. wow. no, i mean, your debate reflects what happens in washington, which is you really miss what s going on in the ground. we need high-quality choices for parents and then they will choose the best education model. ever since we ve infused our neighborhood schools with either a s.t.e.m. based education, which time magazine put on the cover and said this is the new model to the international baccalaureate, to selective enrollment, to high-quality charter and high-quality neighborhood schools, you re seeing our graduation rate climb. because it s quality we re for,
the same time also reopened some. it angered some folks. in this debate over charter schools, what is the role of a charter school in a public in a public school program as far as you re concerned? well, chuck, we have a goal in the city of chicago, we re going to be 100% college ready, 100% college bound. we ll adopt whatever reforms are necessary to make sure every child is ready to go to college and has the education level. the good news, according to the university of chicago, we re well on our way to an 80% graduation rate. when i ran and announced i would run for mayor, we were in the mid-50s for the graduation rate. it means instilling and giving parents choice and high-quality choice. let me walk you through that. instilling in our neighborhood schools s.t.e.m. education. time magazine four weeks ago had five schools on the cover of it, given that new educational model. we now have the largest international baccalaureate program in the country of which
sure. 160 public schools were closed during bloomberg, some of which over huge, huge community pushback. i did not see the charter movement, did not see the big donors for these places running rallies or ads like that, multimillion dollar ad campaigns. when neighborhood schools got closed against the community wanting them closed, there was no one there to stage rallies except the folks in the neighborhood. you try to close a charter school, there are a lot of people writing big checks. there s a simple difference. the charter school is really literally one of the highest performing schools in the state. the mayor said today on tv that one in four kids are ready for college in new york city. coming from the public school system. and if this school is getting kids ready for college, that s a school that has to be embraced and he, himself, has reversed course and said we need to find a are charter schools a crowbar to pry open public education? absolutely not. why not? wh