College Track says Chronicle got it wrong

Interesting. I sent an e-mail to a contact address on the College Track website this morning asking for info. I just got an e-mail (on a Sunday evening) from the head of College Track. She says information was "taken out of context," and that SFUSD and Carlos Garcia have been "extremely supportive and cooperative" in helping College Track get established in SFUSD.

The original editorial misused data to do some gratuitous public-school bashing, by the way (gee, what a rarity). Written as though College Track were competing with SFUSD — which is obviously not the case, as it's a supplemental college counseling/support program — it compared one or another college readiness statistic, College Track's to SFUSD's, to prove College Track's superiority to SFUSD.

The entire concept of trying to prove College Track's superiority doesn't even make sense here, but also, since it's obviously a voluntary program that participate in if they're interested in college, it's unsound and unfair to compare the College Track program to the SFUSD program in that manner. It's just bugging me because this was once again used as a weapon to bash public schools.