October 20th, 2006
ISSAC J. BAILEY A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Why wait for graduation rate request?
A few random thoughts about recent events in and not in the news:
Anyone else find it strange that S.C. Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum has made it a priority to figure out what percentage of the state’s students graduate, this in the final year of a second consecutive term at the helm of our public schools?
She has spent a lot of time telling us about the progress we’ve made, but is there a more important measure than graduation? She recently said we will know in four years just how many of our students graduate. Why wasn’t this a priority during her first year in office?
The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce wants to increase the number of annual tourists by about 42 percent to top that magical 20 million mark. Why? Because the 14 million that come now aren’t enough to provide business for all