By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
CPS recently announced it’s using Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School as a pilot enrollment center for the city’s illegal immigrants. The Johnson administration said it wants “to ensure better educational outcomes.”
That won’t be easy. At Clemente, just 5 of every 100 students are proficient in reading. For math, it’s just 2 in every 100 students. What’s worse, a full 70 out of every 100 students at the high school scored nowhere near reading proficiency on the SAT.
With results like that, the new arrivals would probably be better off not entering CPS at all.
To be fair, the children aren’t directly enrolling at the high school. Instead, the new center will help parents “enroll their children in neighborhood schools.” But many area schools in the West Town neighborhood have student outcomes that aren’t that much better than Clemente’s.
Only 7 out of every 100 students can read at grade level at nearby Sabin Elementary. At Wells Prep, it’s 9 out of every 100. At Lozano Elementary, it’s a dismal 4 out of every 100.
And even at the “top” area schools like Pritzker Elementary and LaSalle Language Academy, less than half of all students are reading proficient.
Math results are even worse across the board.
There’s no real mention of these failures in any of the articles covering CPS’ handling of the migrant inflow. No talk about the district’s long-running inability to teach students the skills they need, much less of the new students with far bigger needs. (See Chicago Public Schools fails its Hispanic students: Only 17 of every 100 read at grade level.– A Wirepoints Special Report.)
Instead, politicians, administrators and the media alike are welcoming new children into a failing system.
Maybe it’s because CPS finally has new, warm bodies to fill their many empty, failing schools.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- How many grades behind are Chicago Public Schools’ students?
- Chicago Public Schools doesn’t deserve another penny
- No, Mr. Martinez, your excuses for Chicago Public Schools’ failure to educate children don’t hold up
- Chicago Public Schools fails its Hispanic students: Only 17 of every 100 read at grade level. – Wirepoints Special Report
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Liberal politicians have a vested interest in seeing children don’t get educated s these same politicians can avoid having to answer embarrassing questions about their actions.
Shameful !!!!!
Why welcome kids into a failing system? Why set up kids with teachers with purple hair, nose rings, bags full of queer and transgender books to sneak to them, prounons they must be proficient at using while they’re flunking math, why? I think it’s because teachers are entitled to teach no matter how bad or uneducated, they are, no matter what they look like or what crap they teach, the unions will support them, make sure they have a job, and a big paycheck. Load ’em up, move em out, kids don’t need no stinkin’ diploma! Teacher needs a check… Read more »
We don’t need no education…..
Breaking News! Had no plans to vote for Trump. I do now. Thank you Jack Smith for helping me decide.
Look on the bright side, they’re failing dismally at reading, writing and arithmetic. But way ahead of everyone at the subjects of gender fluidity, victimhood, entitlement and leftist culture. Their big-glasses, nose-ringed, blue-haired, unionized teachers saw to that!
Why would anyone expect a different outcome from the Chicago School District? The USA born children are failing so why would it be any different for the immigrants? Interesting thought though being there will be three racial groups involved now the racism card won’t play so maybe for once blame can be placed upon the Chicago Education System from teacher’s aids to District Superintendent.
At Chicago’s union run schools, failure is a feature, not a bug
Based on the way Democrats think, CPS is a rousing success. Stupid kids means stupid adults that can’t get a decent job. Those are adults that will fall for the false promises of Democrats, with their “vote for me and I’ll give you stuff”. We’re judging CPS like normal people, which Democrats are not.