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But the numbers citywide for third through eighth graders have still not reached pre-pandemic levels at most schools. Overall, about 26% of students met or exceeded reading standards on the 2023 test, compared with 27.3% in 2019. For math, 17.5% of students passed, compared with 23.6% in 2019.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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When you have a slight improvement to off-the-chart awful, you’re still off-the-chart awful.
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Chalkbeat Chicago is the propaganda arm of the crooked corrupt Chicago Teachers Union — anything you see from them is an automatic LIE
I’m confused! The numbers listed for 2023 are generally lower than the 2019 numbers. Are we celebrating the decline of learning or celebrating the gains over the zero scores of 2020-2021 when no one was tested? Another point is in a class of 30 students scoring 18% means less than 6 are functioning at grade level.
maybe a WP research idea?—compare test scores in Austin neighborhood zip-code CPS schools to a certain selective enrollment/magnate CPS school in Portage Park that a certain politician sends his kids to? or, maybe that’s going to far? ….I looked anyways