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A recently released Stanford University study shows the impact charter schools can have on closing achievement gaps for students of color. Researchers discovered that students who attend charter schools show more academic growth over the course of a school year compared to their peers at district-operated schools. In Illinois specifically, that difference was equal to charter school students attending 40 extra days of school for reading and 48 extra days for math.
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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crooked corrupt unions will move to kill charter schools that offer an alternative to failed union schools