re: It appears EBR school superintendent's days are numbered

Have to be willing to have unpleasant conversations and be willing to call folks out whole being labeled a racist.

No one is willing to do this.

I have heard the money angle with Taylor, but how much would we save by canning his boyfriend's arse from his six figure job he has working in the school system as well? Sounds like we could cut the losses by killing two birds with one stone.

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Are you talking about the credits for graduating incident? Didn't EBR self report that? From what I heard it sounded like mistakes were made, when discovered they were reported, and EBR was willing to make changes to ensure it wouldn't happen again. Was there more to that than what I heard?

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WBRZ investigated and found it was a whitewash and that Taylor only reported the problem after the state asked him about it .
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The investigation began over a graduation discrepancy. Taylor told News 2 this year, EBR self-reported the discrepancy. However, the documents News 2 obtained from the state show, Taylor did not self-report the problem until the State raised the issue.

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ETA another report was done by WAFB exposing discipline problems and grade fixing . Don't believe any of the grades you see. They probably were doctored to dome degree from what I gather from this report.

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Follow this link.

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they want bad kids to stay in school

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Right there. That's why we will not succeed. There is no adequate excuse for this, and you will never have good schools in Southeast BR with these types of policies in place. Give us a separate system. I promise that we'll do just fine, and over on the north side of I-10 maybe you can try a different tactic, where school grades are less important to the local PTA.

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In High School there is no difference between a A and a D when it comes to the school score the only thing that effects it is graduation, so possible grade fixing at the senior level or possibly to prevent a kid from dropping out is the only incentive for such a tactic. So, I would question grade fixing at any organized level simply because its effect would be nothing to very minor.

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Waiting for Russian to LOL at that one.

Having said that, you're completely ignoring this from your own link...

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COHORT GRADUATION RATE

Schools earn points for the percent of students who graduate from high school within four years. This rate is calculated by dividing the number of students who graduate by the number of students who entered 9th grade four years earlier.

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You honestly don't think there's an incentive to fluff the numbers in an area that impacts 25% of the school's grade in HS?

Or better yet, again from your own link, it mentions the Graduation Index counting for 25% of the overall score as well. Per student, the difference between a 4-year graduate/diploma recipient and a 5th year graduate is 25 points per student. For kids who don't go back and simply opt to receive a GED? It's 50 points total. For kids who wouldn't even bother with either? It's a 100 point per student swing.

You telling me with a straight face that it "seems" like there's not much incentive to push kids to graduate or to fudge the cohort # when it impacts up to HALF of the school's total score?

You're either a dilettante who didn't even read your own link before trying to defend a broken system, or you have an agenda to protect the system for some reason.

The motive for committing fraud is clear. By changing grades, increasing graduation rates and the like, you can impact school's scores which will allow you to funnel additional money into your own school system. In other words, it's a method by which school and system administrators are committing malfeasance via misappropriation of taxpayer money.