Poor-performing California school district shells out $600,000 for ‘rap’ curriculum

Poor-performing California school district shells out $600,000 for ‘rap’ curriculum

33 percent of students are proficient in reading, 20 percent in math A central California K-8 school district is under scrutiny for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an “edutainment” program which teaches kids to rap. The New York Post reports the Merced City School District has paid more than $600,000 over roughly the last year to the company School Yard Rap… Source