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A Chicago Public Schools spokesperson said the district has 198 coaches who support teachers in literacy and math. In addition, the district has also given funding to every school to hire at least one academic interventionist to work with students.
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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.
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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.
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There’s nothing wrong with CPS that a few thousand nuns couldn’t fix!
“academic interventionist”. Wow, now they are just making sh*t up. Absolutely, I am sure a single person, hired by each school, into a burocracy that allows teachers to hide for decades without producing anything, will have the desired effect…or is it affect? I dunno, maybe I need an Academic interventionist to help… Sheesh. Love how they spend money on another program that no chance of succeeding. We shouldn’t worry though, I am sure it is only $5M or $10M. Pocket change.
Today’s Wall Street Journal highlights a struggle between parents and schools over the early teaching of Algebra. Parents want it in grade school but schools want to delay it until all can do arithmetic. Classic educational response: let the bright ones idle until all have equal skills. Build up the one group by restraining the other. Exactly the reason attentive parents have been abandoning CPS.
2 parent households. There, I fixed it for you.
Maybe the teachers can start with this-Khan Academy Kids if it is allowed by the district.
https://khankids.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/7585400973723–NEW-Khan-Kids-for-Schools