WBBM Radio joined Wirepoints at our press conference in front of Pilsen’s Benito Juarez High School, where only 48 out of 1,700 students can do math at grade level, to report on Wirepoints’ new special report: “Chicago Public Schools fails its Hispanic students: Only 17 of every 100 read at grade level.”
Check out WBBM’s coverage here: https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/hispanic-students-getting-shorted-in-chicago-researchers
And check out your CPS school or district’s student outcomes in Wirepoints’ School District Report Card Database.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Wirepoints’ Chicago School Report Card Database
- Illinois lawmakers face two choices on Invest in Kids Act: support schoolchildren or support teachers unions
- Chicago Public Schools wants help with massive deficits despite billions in federal aid, plummeting enrollment
- 50 years of failure: Norman Lear’s ‘Good Times’ first criticized Chicago’s policy of automatically passing students in 1974. It’s still happening today.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
I’ll bet that if they renamed the school Carter Harrison Tech, English scores would improve….
I suspect that the school still flies the Mexican flag outside.
The goal is to achieve EQUITY first then education might come second.