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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]James Lander. Can someone please, please, please run against him when his term us up? It has to be a Dem. A republican can't win here. I will canvas for you. He does not grasp the issues here. He is stuck on his personal view that race & income are irrelevant to achievement. Of course everyone has the potential. But We have APS stats on this. SOLs, SATs. It's fine to disagree about whether to use boundary changes to fix them. But please, spare us your uninformed view that the disparity doesn't exist here.It's embarrassing for a "world class" school system to hear that from the podium. He said he reads the forums. I hope he reads this. [/quote]

100% agree that this man is an embarrassment. He will be hearing directly from me about his remarks the other night. Among APS's espoused priorities, SES diversity (that is, not having concentrated poverty in one school) is THE most important for education. Not proximity, not neighborhood cohesiveness, not even overcrowding. His comments about this are completely asinine.[/quote]

Ugh. I had to go back and watch again because I'm really trying to understand what he's saying.  So basically, it doesn't matter if your poor or black or white because each educational experiences is unique.  So nice and positive! 
Unfortunately, Mr. Lander, some of us look  at DATA and read the RESEARCH that tells us that academic achievement is tied  to income level and, as a group, low income students don't do as well as their higher income peers. 
Surely, he understands this, but I m just not sure why he is trying to minimize it. [/quote]

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