Only 3 Camden, NJ high schoolers scored “college-ready” on SAT’s
The Camden, New Jersey superintendent who reported the following results for his district can at least take comfort in the fact that his students are not test-cheaters.
The new school superintendent in Camden, N.J., says it was a “kick-in-the-stomach moment” when he learned that only three district high school students who took the SAT this year scored as college-ready.
Paymon Rouhanifard on Tuesday told the school board and the community what he learned on a “listening tour” after he was named to the post in August.
He told the city’s Board of Education that low college readiness shows the district must do better.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports (http://bit.ly/19cp4f3) the superintendent also says he also heard about safety problems in the district. He says one action he’s taking immediately is waiving the $75 background check fee for parents who want to volunteer in the schools.
In June, the state assumed control of the schools in the poverty-stricken city of 80,000.
New Camden, NJ, superintendent: Only 3 students who took SAT this year scored college-ready (Fox News)
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“He told the city’s Board of Education that low college readiness shows the district must do better.”
His solution (delivered in sobbing, gasping-for-air emphasis), “We must, we have to, pay the unionized teachers more to attract the best and the brightest. We simply must be willing to sacrifice even more for the teachers and their union, including paying more for their pensions. After all, IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!”