Are their students performing as well as students attending schools in upper middle class neighborhoods? No, but these schools are hardly dysfunctional. While dealing with chronic absenteeism, a large population of English language learners (24.6%) and a lot of students living in poverty (83.9%), SUSD’s graduation rate is over 83%, they meet all five of the basic standards for California schools and their English language learners are making above average progress. However, a quick look at the California school dashboard shows a few things that one would not expect in a dysfunctional district. In their headline, The 74 labels SUSD dysfunctional.
In Stockton schools, the Hispanic population accounts for 70% of the students while all other demographic groups contribute single digit percentages to the total. The city has a 16.3% poverty rate however, 82% of their 39,800 charter and public school students live in poverty. The US census bureau reports the demographics as 44.9% Hispanic, 20.9% Asian, 18.1% White and 11.3 % Black.
Stockton is a small California city of about 322,000 people and is one of America’s most diverse cities. In February, The 74 published an attack piece on the Stockton Unified School District (SUSD). Hit Piece on a Majority Minority City’s Schools From the beginning The 74 has been a mouthpiece for billionaires out to end publicly financed education.
The billionaires funding Brown’s startup included the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Doris and Donald Fisher Fund, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, all of which have opposed teachers unions and supported various school-privatization initiatives. It’s a clear point of view, and that is that the public education system, in its current form, is broken, and there’s an urgency to fix it.” “I agree we have a point of view it’s a nonpartisan point of view.
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At the time, Brown who supported charter schools, opposed teacher tenure and was convinced schools were full of sexual predators stated, In 2015, the Washington Post reported on the founding of The 74 by former CNN news anchor Campbell Brown along with Michael Bloomberg’s education advisor Romy Drucker.
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