From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
Sometimes you can’t win for losing. That must be how Lancaster County school officials feel after being accused of racism for trying to bridge the achievement gap between black and white students.
This isn’t a problem limited to that Southeastern Pennsylvania community. Nationally, African American students have failed to perform at the same academic level as whites for decades, even among students with similar economic backgrounds.
Confronted with test scores showing that only a third of its black students were proficient in reading, compared to 60 percent of white students, Lancaster County’s McCaskey East High School decided to take a controversial step to reduce the gap…
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The article mistsakenly refers to “County school officials” rather than to the School district of Lancaster.
