Will Black Talk Radio Talk About The "Atlanta Miracle"?

Roll the clock back about 7 years ago.
I recall listening to the attacks mounted against "No Child Left Behind" by various Black Progressive talk show operatives (Atlanta's WAOK, Bev Smith - nationally, etc)

They talked about the fraud behind "The Houston Miracle". They argued that Rod Paige - then President George Bush's education secretary had rode the wave of successful school reform though a series of standardized test cheating and doctored graduation records. Their goal at the time was to attack "No Child Left Behind" and maintain the status quo for the benefit of the Teacher's Unions.

Fast forward to 2009. Beyond the absence of "Anti-War Protests" despite 2 wars that continue - we hear no attacks on two programs that had been the subject of bruising attacks:

• The Faith Based Initiative 
• No Child Left Behind

Despite the fact that, like the 2 wars, these two programs are continuing under the banner of the Obama Administration - the usual suspects are strangely silent DESPITE the continued presence of the issues that precipitated the need for these two programs.

In my previous reports I noted that the State of Georgia executed a "forensic audit" upon schools that had a jump in grades beyond a certain tolerance.   

As an outsider I can't say which study is "telling the truth" (the states or the city's).  All I can do is evaluate the methodology that each had used and make a judgment about which of the two had a more credible process using the prevailing set of facts.

In either case - the school children stand to lose if and when they are used as pawns to achieve a certain end by the adults who have been charged with providing them with quality educational services.

Sadly - these Talk Show Host operatives have little interest in doing "whatever is necessary" to achieve these educational ends.  They are far more interested in advancing the power of their ideology and party.  At the end of it - just as was the case with the Clayton County School system - this will be seen as a "White governing authority" seeking to turn the screws on a predominately Black school system as a means of embarrassing the Black leadership there in.   

I am a fan of Atlanta Public School System's Beverly Hall.  On this occasion - I think that she has taken the wrong posture - one of defensiveness.