Obama’s School Improvement Grant (SIG) program pumped billions into failing schools on the premise that the problem was not enough money. Wrong.
The damning final evaluation of the SIG program was released – just a coincidence, we’re told – two days before the administration walked out the door. Funded by the very Department of Education that ran the program and conducted by two respected research institutions, the study found that SIG had no influence on student achievement. None. Schools that received massive SIG funding and support saw no gains in test scores, graduation rates or college-going rates compared to similar schools that weren’t part of SIG.
The answer is not to add more money to a failed system. And President Trump has been handed the evidence, courtesy of Arene Duncan and Barack Obama.
H/T Watchdog.org
