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another "Texas miracle"



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=68&u=/nyt/20031107/ts_nyt/schoolviolencedataunderacloudinhouston

"They're cooking the books," Dr. Witkowski said of school
officials. "There are dozens of crimes in Houston schools
that you will not see on any official document. Teachers are
assaulted, students are beaten up, and these things do not
make it into the reports."
....
Houston, however, has been held up as a pillar of the
so-called Texas miracle in education, though it was battered
earlier this year by disclosure of false school statistics:
a state audit found that the authorities had failed to
report properly thousands of school dropouts, giving the
district an impressive-looking but fake dropout rate of just
1.5 percent.