Commentary: Why Chicago Teachers Union’s penchant for empty schools will fill prisons – Center Square

Brad Weisenstein, of the Illinois Policy Institute: "The U.S. Department of Justice has drawn a clear line between illiteracy and incarceration: “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure. Over 70 percent of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth-grade level.” By the time a student reaches 11th grade in Chicago, that student’s reading ability is terribly low. Last year, only 22 percent of high school juniors could read at grade level. Only 19 percent could do math."
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Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago

It’s not exactly news that career criminals are uneducated, too lazy to work or a combination thereof. But no, the prisons won’t fill while Kwame, Tim Evans and the other Marxists are in power and are closing them/ tearing them down to be replaced with open air, stay if you feel like it holistic facilities.

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