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Bill Gates is back creating controversy by funding the movie "Waiting For Superman" about the schools. I wrote my article "Bill Gates Did Not Pay For This Study" after reading this report in 2006 (see below). You take a look at the progress that high school students have made in the last four years and decide who is to blame. Everyone is to blame, but the administration is often right up there and no cover up can help it. The educational system needed a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or a Gandhi to run the system. It needed someone who could bring people together. I am always there to help out and I was not appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to do what I do. Eighty percent of the students entering the City University need remediation. It is not the fault of the unions. New York State has lost tens of thousands of GED diplomas since 2001 and New York City has lost its fair share. It is not the fault of the unions. The public is being fooled by conservatives and conservative money. Okay the public is being fooled by liberals, too, because we are all to blame. Blame parent involvement and the school presidents for their mistakes, blame parent coordinators who are often controlled by the principal (yes the principal), blame the principals and the superintendents, blame Mayor Bloomberg and his staff who have not helped the immigrant population adequately, blame the elected officials (including Hispanic and Black ones), blame your churches and community organizations because they could all do more, blame the consulates of Latin America and the Caribbean (call me to find out why) , blame the Department of Education (I just received its status quo response about helping teens know their GED rights better) because they deserve the blame, blame the charter schools for not aggressively helping the students with great needs, blame the parents, and blame yourself for thinking that teachers alone are to blame. We are all to blame.

When I wrote my response to this report four years ago, I knew that someone has to be on the bottom in society and over the last forty years it is most likely because of educational achievement. Have you noticed that things have gotten much worse for everyone in the last four years and even people with high levels of education have been hit by the recession. I repeat someone has to be on the bottom, because there has always been lots of unemployed and underemployed. My friends, also, keep speaking about the "Pipeline to Prison." Take a look at the jobs that we have all over the United States. Mc Donald's and its competitors, CVS and its competitors, Target and its competitors, your local Cuchifrito and its competitors, the Gap and its competitors, Tyson and its competitors, security in the malls and its competitors, Staples and its competitors, Subways and its competitors, all of the stores that send money around the world, and hundreds of thousands of other stores.
This is America. The people on the bottom are unemployed and then there are the undocumented immigrants who are not paid minimum wage and who are owed money by people they have done work for. Then come those who work part-time only and those numbers must be increasing. Then there are those who make minimum wage or fifty cents more than minimum wage. With unemployment among African-Americans and Hispanics reaching the level of the "Great Depression" and an educational system that is still largely failing, things are really getting worse and it is not teacher's union that is driving this. It is not President Obama and he cannot help it if people have to eat franks and beans again or rice and beans.

Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States
Jay P. Greene, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Greg Forster, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Funding for this report was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Executive Summary

Students who fail to graduate high school prepared to attend a four-year college are much less likely to gain full access to our country’s economic, political, and social opportunities. In this study we estimate the percentage of students in the public high school class of 2001 who actually possess the minimum qualifications for applying to four-year colleges. To be “college ready” students must pass three crucial hurdles: they must graduate from high school, they must have taken certain courses in high school that colleges require for the acquisition of necessary skills, and they must demonstrate basic literacy skills.

Two new ideas for the movie makers are make a movie about my work since I retired and the other is making a movie about how Mayor Bloomberg or Chancellor Klein and all of the mistakes they have made or make just one movie about both of them.
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