As I've mentioned in the past, the Bush family has a long history of burying favorable news about public education in America.
It turns out that they're doing it again:
Students at charter schools performed significantly worse than students at traditional public schools, according to a study released yesterdayby the Department of Education. The research was based on results from the "nation's report card" - the National Assessment of Educational Progress test.
More after the jump. (Also posted at Mercury Rising.)
The rest of the story:
"After adjusting for student characteristics, charter school mean scores in reading and mathematics were lower, on average, than those for public noncharter schools," the study concluded.
Republicans have been strong proponents of charter schools, which they made sure to promote through the ironically titled No Child Left Behind Act. Sure enough, the Bush Administration was quick to criticize its own study in a statement yesterday, in which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings continued to express her support for the now debunked theory that charter schools are better than public schools.
Sounds all too familiar, doesn't it? They did the same thing with an earlier study last month, and Bush's dad suppressed the 1989 Sandia Labs study -- which he had requested, but which had to wait for Bill Clinton to take office to see daylight.