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“The Texas Miracle,” the sublime label applied to the amazing
turnaround of Houston public schools that formed the basis for Bush’s
“No Child Left Behind” program, exposed
for what it was: nothing more than Enron-esque fraud and number games.
Accurate records on dropouts are impossible to come by. “I
think a reasonable guess is that almost half of Houston’s students
do not graduate from high school.”