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Michael Hirsch in the New York Teacher writes "Duncan's Chicago ed reforms a bust." A six year plan called Renaissance 2010 was analyzed and the scores from the elementary schools created under Renaissance 2010 reveal that they are equal to the city average and the scores at the closed down and remade high schools "are below the already abysmal city average." There is talk among educators that Secretary Arne Duncan got where he is today the same way that former Secretary Rod Paige did. We see on the elementary school level in New York City that charter schools and schools run by the Department of Education both can reach the standards that save them from being closed. The UFT newspaper writes that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for "quality" education and that may still be lacking in both cities as children pass their promotional exams and graduate from high school. The latter, like the GED, may give hope to people in the workforce, but the struggle to maintain oneself in college will persist and could get worse as minority students fail at the college level. That failure may be attributed to what is going on in the high schools and GED programs and it may affect all those people who pass the GED without benefit of the best GED preparation. I call for a doubling of the number of GED diplomas nationwide and my plan of action takes into account helping everyone and not just a select few in the GED programs of New York City.
GED in Illinois in 2001 43,199 Test takers 26,311 diplomas issued
GED in Illinois in 2008 28,013 Test takers 15,988 diplomas issued

GED Spanish test takers in 2001 3,362
GED Spanish test takers in 2008 2,058

An honor student was killed near Fenger High School. See part of the article below that was written by J. Coyden Palmer. I recently contacted a school in Brooklyn that a youth who was shot attends or attended. I was told that the principal would contact me, but nobody has contacted me. I repeat I was not contacted. Does that school have something to hide?
Are Chicago Public School Policies to Blame for Melee That Killed Derrion Albert?
Rev. Victory Grandberry is a member of Fenger’s Local School Council. He and others are specifically blaming CPS administrators for creating the violent climate at Fenger. He said changing the status of what used to be Carver High School to a military academy has made the situation at Fenger chaotic. Grandberry said there are now about 1,300 students at Fenger and only 500 at Carver, which is operating well below its capacity, while Fenger is busting at the seams.
“This has been going on for some time,” a frustrated Grandberry told reporters and added he received an anonymous text message that there would be more violence at the school in the days to come. “I’ve been on the LSC for eight years and violence within the school has always been a problem. The solution is instead of the Board of Education making Fenger a turnaround school, maybe they should meet with the community more and see what the needs are. The kids who live in Altgeld Gardens, send them to Carver.”

Mayor Nagin is defeated in New Orleans as the failures since the Katrina disaster are exposed. Crime seems to be the biggest problem in the city, but what about the schools and the number of adults there who still have no diploma.

Buyers' remorse
Five years after Katrina, some of New Orleans' neighborhoods are still unfit for habitation due to flood damage, and its system of levees and flood walls — protecting a city with large areas situated below sea level — is vulnerable to a repeat of Katrina's catastrophic flooding.
Albert Arnold, 66, who lost his home in eastern New Orleans to Katrina, said Nagin's performance on Katrina recovery and crime has been disappointing.
"Crime is the biggest problem in the city, and it's gotten a lot worse in the last four years," Arnold said.
However, this year's election is less about race and more about "buyer's remorse" from voters' disappointment with Nagin, said Bernie Pinsonat, pollster and political strategist at Southern Media and Opinion Research.
"You have a very unpopular mayor who's a big disappointment to voters," Pinsonat said. "In Landrieu you have somebody the city looks to as a unifier and someone who can maybe get something done."

GED in Louisiana in 2001 13,150 test takers 9.697 diplomas issued
GED in Louisiana in 2008 10,213 test takers 7,150 diplomas issued
GED Spanish test takers in 2001 49
GED Spanish test takers in 2008 15

The Sean Bell Foundation and I will be presenting a project that the entire nation can get involved in. This is the "GED on Wheels." Wake up everybody!

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