The Winston-Salem chapter of the NAACP is fuming over the results of a UNC doctoral dissertation on school choice in Forsyth County. The dissertation showed that the school system’s choice plan had no significant effect on test scores.
The NAACP has long been a critic of the district’s choice plan, which they say increases racial inequalities and widens the achievement gap between white and black students. They have claimed that the choice plan would lead to dramatic decreases in test scores for black students, but the dissertation found that race was not a significant predictor of student performance.
Having no evidence to actually mount an informed response, representatives of the NAACP cried foul. One member said, “But I used to work for the police department and one thing we used to say is you can get statistics to show anything you want.”
Wow, forget the education statistics. Someone needs to do a study of the police department statistics.
