McDermott touts College Bound, a success for the city and touts that the drop in population that wasn't that bad as feared? When do you tout a population drop as not that bad.
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McDermott also tied the need for grade school "options" for families to the city's recently-released census figures, which showed a
drop in population that wasn't as bad as he feared.http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/article_f6f8c7b5-4abb-5e4f-8487-d08feaf89578.htmlThe success of College Bound is in question:
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mattlap Post subject: Re: McDermott Abandoned Public School ChildrenPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:27 pm
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It matters whether they drop put of college or the program. The length of time to get a degree shows the effectiveness of the program. Isn't ultimately the goal of the program to have Hammond students get college degrees? Would you say the same thing if 80 kids out of 100 didn't make it back for the 2nd year? And all 20 that did graduated. Would you call that 100% success?
No ...the study claims that home ownership has stayed steady because the level of homestead exemptions has stayed relatively neutral despite the foreclosure crisis. That means only one thing and it's a fact nationwide. Banks are slow to foreclose, so as of right now the loans and the homesteads are staying in homeowners names regardless of the fact many are empty.
But still ... even if you use the homebound program it's an amazingly small statistical reference. I can't imagine there are many homes sold thru homebound in a year. A few dozen at most.