D.C.'s Distinction: $16,344 Per Student, But Only 12% Read Proficiently

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Most of this has to do with the huge percentage of children in the District who are categorized as special ed. Remember, parts of this city have infant mortality rates that are worse than countries such as Bangladesh and Mali. Often, those children who do survive have myriad strikes against them: lead paint poisoning their brains, fetal alcohol and illicit drug exposure, poor nutrition, asthma and diabetes that parents cannot afford to treat, and post-traumatic stress disorder that is never really "post" from living in the American equivalent of a third-world country.

Oh, and next time try using an actual news source instead of an English-language Pravda.

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BWHA! I didn't notice that...I actually got it from Fark.

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That's cool. As a journalist and librarian, the validity of sources is a huge concern for me. There's a particular group that gets a lot of play on immigration issues that is essentially the "legitimate" front for a self-admitted white supremacist organization. (The two groups have the same funding sources, board of directors, staff, et al.) Objects get thrown at the television every time I see one of their "experts" being quoted. One of these days I'm gonna break the screen.