Texas Responds to Mathematically Challenged Arne Duncan

The Dallas Morning News reports:

People work too hard to have their work dismissed with his pathetic statement about feeling "very, very badly for the children there."

TEA Commissioner Robert Scott emailed Duncan a sharp response last night (keep reading for text), and I'm glad he did.

The tipoff that Duncan doesn't care about facts was his statement about "massive increases in class size in Texas" during Rick Perry's time in the governor's office.

Does that sound right to you -- considering the fact that the 22-1 class-size cap has been in place that whole time for primary grades?

I checked TEA records on statewide class size averages. Primary grades held steady, of course, while most secondary class averages went down during the Perry years.

Examples: Secondary math classes averaged 20.3 students in 2000-01 and dropped to 18.5 by last year. Average size of secondary English/language arts classes fell from 20.2 students in 2000-01 to 17.8 by last year.

Anybody could look this stuff up. It's right there on the TEA website. Duncan surely has a few thousand employees who could help him find it.

Arne Duncan is nothing more than a sleazy ,political hack. Even Mayor Rahm Emanuel doesn't want to send his children to the Chicago Public Schools. Neither did Barack Obama.