Telling researchers they can't use official data in a way that makes schools look bad is appalling. But the state has a history of trying to suppress bad news.
— alleged that ineffective remote learning programs set up by the Los Angeles and Oakland unified school districts in response to pandemic-driven school closures disproportionately harmed low-income Latino and Black students. The claim blamed this on policies pushed by the state Department of Education, the state Board of Education and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.
To insist that researchers can only use school data in a way that is neutral or makes the department look good is perverse and antithetical to what should be the goals of public education. Had such policies been in place 20 years ago, they could have kept the lid on perhaps the worst scandal in the history of public schools in California: the
by Harvard researchers that credibly alleged the state had for years knowingly exaggerated graduation rates, especially among Latino and Black students, by relying on what was plainly “misleading and inaccurate” information.that the state had mostly backed away from its threats against Dee and others. But given state officials’ history, there is simply no reason to believe this resulted from a realization the threats were wrong. Instead, they were embarrassed by the optics of the flap.
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