If you believe APS' website, link, the graduation rate at Rio
Grande High School is up 13%. According to a table attached
to an article in the Journal, link, RGHS' graduation rate is
actually down 5.55%; a discrepancy of nearly 20%.
If you dig, likely you will find a kernel of truth in APS' version;
there will be some bit of isolated "data" that points to a 13%
increase; an outright lie would be a stretch even for them.
Their version will be of some select subgroup of students that
will make them look good; left-handed seniors with freckles,
and then present it in a manner likely to leave or create
impressions that are not true.
Is that what we really want?
Do we want to spend the better part of a million dollars a year
on APS' Communications Dept, including $107K a year for an
Executive Director of Communications to put a spin on the truth
in order to APS schools look better than they really are?
Maybe that's the way the leadership of the APS feels about it, but I doubt taxpayers and other interest holders feel the same way.
You cannot simultaneously solve a problem and hide it. That's why APS is so bad at problem solving; they devote so much energy and resources to hiding problems, there's nothing left to solve them.
photo Mark Bralley
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Who to believe; Armenta or the Journal
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The number that APS is posting for a graduation rate only includes seniors that started the year at Rio Grande. The number in the Journal is the actual 4-year cohort graduation rate. Your anger with Monica Armenta is probably misguided; it should probably be directed at the person who has the most to gain by making Rio Grande look good, Linda Sink.
There are the numbers APS uses and the numbers everyone else uses. My point was APS will use the most flattering data even if its not the most cogent.
I'm actually not angry with Monica Armenta. I am upset that we pay so much money for the truth and get spin instead.
The state of NM should hold all these public decievers accountable for most-reflective data... but they won't.
All these politicians from Obama to the site principal will use the most flatering data to pat themselves on the back for a "job well done", even though they know it's a deception.
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