Ex-Houston Principal Punished Over Data

HOUSTON -- Under fire for underreporting student dropout rates, the Houston school district announced it is docking the pay of a former principal and a computer technician at one high school found to be among the worst offenders.

Sharpstown High School had been among a handful of schools claiming they had no dropouts, claims that were questioned in a complaint filed with the Texas Education Agency by a state legislator from Houston.

A series of internal audits and external investigations that followed found that nearly all the schools examined in Houston, the nation's seventh largest school district and the district where U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige had been superintendent, were vastly underreporting dropouts.

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Mr. Paige was going to be the savior of our schools...because he was so successful in his own city... but alas he wasn't...
but will anyone question it??