Ravitch’s rebuttal

Ravitch's lame rebuttal, acknowledging progress but saying Bloomberg and Klein overhyped it.  Gee, a politician overhyping something – what a shocker!  What's the next stunning revelation – prostitution in Las Vegas???

If Chancellor Klein said only that New York City had improved in the past eight years, I would have no quarrel with him. But he and Mayor Bloomberg have claimed for years that New York City had made "historic gains" under their programs and that the city was a national, even an international, model. It is not. Since the state scores–on which their claims were based–collapsed a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Klein have refused to accept any accountability for their inflated claims.

 

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http://www.edexcellence.net/flypaper/index.php/2010/08/diane-ravitch-bloomberg-and-klein-refuse-to-accept-responsibility-for-inflated-claims/