A little over a week ago, the Sacramento Bee broke a story that created a minor stir, documenting how many California schools are gaming No Child Left Behind by reclassifying minority kids to different ethnic groups, thus flying below the law’s reporting threshold. Good, solid reporting. One principal, Jim Wong of Will C. Wood Middle School in Sacramento, was on the record, talking about how persuading the parents of four students to change the racial designation of their mixed-race kids kept him out of trouble. Dead-bang, unambiguous gaming the system and flouting the spirit of the law, right?
Today the paper comes back for a second bite at the apple in an editorial defending the principal. And it’s a pretty good defense.
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