Dept. Of Ed: Public Schools as Good or Better than Private

On Friday afternoon the Department of Education quietly released a report that showed that Public Schools perform as well or better than Private Schools. The NYT was one of the few papers to pick this up. (See Article linked to title) While this comes as no great surprise to public school employees, it apparently was a shock to those federal government agencies who withheld the results of this study for six months. Also long forgotten is the Scandia Report, linked below, that debunks the many myths that have been used to cause people to doubt the excellent education system in the US.
One wonders if the results would have shown private schools besting public that the fanfare or lack thereof would have been the same. I imagine that there would have been a major press conference with many conservative dignitaries calling for an increase and acceleration in public funding of private schools. Oh well boys, wait a few more years under the NCLB Act and every public school will reach the failed school level based on artificial anti public school criteria. Maybe then the rhetoric will seem to fit the facts.

Scandia Report