The director of communications for South Carolina’s Department of Education, Jim Foster, made an interesting comment in an opinion piece for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Speaking on whether S.C. officials were misleading the public about SAT scores in the schools, he wrote:
Accurate information is a cornerstone of accountability, and public schools strive to be fully accessible and accountable. Private schools, on the other hand, are neither fully accessible nor fully accountable to the public. Their individual SAT averages, achievement test scores and black-white achievement gaps are not reported by the news media and are not publicly available. That is entirely appropriate because they are private schools.
