However, where is the call for the indictment of Superintendent Cassin at the Greater Lowell Technical High School?

In Dracut, the SAT Scores stayed the same or slipped a couple points (the greatest slide being a drop of 8 points in writing). In Chelmsford, things stayed fairly stable, as was the case with Billerica’s slight improvement.

Lowell, however, made great improvements in its Reading and Writing scores. Congratulations to Superintendent Beher on such a great achievement.

“We’re seeing an improvement in all areas,” [Lowell High Principal] Samaras said. “The scores still aren’t where we want them to be, but we had far more kids participating and it’s a great move in the right direction.”

The real question is “What happened at the GLTech?”

Their grades in reading slipped 10 points, in writing 16, and in math they dropped 34 points!

Now I’m sure they’ll have other statistics to explain away the discrepency.. the change in demographics, number of test takers skewing the sample size, the number of “bad” kids they had this year..

But then again, it seemed like everyone was quick to throw statistics at Espindle without taking the time to understand the situation in Dracut.

“Hey Lucy, someone’s got some ’splainin to do.”

From the Lowell Sun:

For Dracut, when you total the scores we fell below the state average this year by 71 points all told, yet the Greater Lowell Technical High School came in 239 points below the state average.

Dracut, however, spends $8147.60 per student while the GLTech spends $14,863.43.The state average was $11,367.36.

The Chart is not in the online version of the article, you’ll have to pick up the paper to see some of the scores from other towns.