Power Line's numbers guy, Steve Hayward, posts a chart comparing the performance of three types of schools at educating the nation's 4th and 8th grade students.
What is discouraging is that charter schools do no better than regular public schools. At both grade levels and for both reading and math, Catholic schools outperform the other two types and the differences are not tiny.
When parents are paying monthly fees to keep their kids in school, it appears they pay more attention to whether their allocation of funds is paying off, whether their kids are doing homework and learning. It is also likely the RC schools are more serious about maintaining classroom order and discipline.
The other DrC - who trained teachers for employment in the public schools - believes those schools are no longer doing their job. Another chart shows things are getting worse over time. This testing evidence substantiates her dismal opinion.
