Ted joined Scott Slocum to talk about the collapse in SAT scores across the state, why even top school districts are failing, why interventions like banning phones in the classroom are so important, the upcoming $23 billion in upcoming state deficits, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
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- Politicians’ five-step guide for making parents think all’s well in Illinois schools
- Fresh data: Illinois officials graduate record 88% of students despite tragic literacy, numeracy rates
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system.
- The big myth that needs debunking: Illinois needs more money for education
- Chicago Public Schools spends $100 million yearly on its 20 emptiest schools. And it wants to spend another $1 billion on them.
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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.
The entire public education industry is a con on the tax payer.
That’s a snapshot you won’t see on any media outlet in Chicago. What an indictment it is of the school systems throughout the state, as well as the teachers unions and public officials. Take a bow everyone, you just screwed an entire generation of children. Special shout out to Governor JB Pritzker, for pretending this didn’t get a lot worse under his watch, and for mishandling the Covid pandemic, which also contributed.
Public schools are awash in money. The problem is, it’s spent on “administrators” and not teachers or students.
I’m sure it is nothing that electing more democrats and raising taxes can’t fix. After all the pond scum known as Illinoisans deserve it. They continue to vote for it year after year, just like the good little slaves they are.
If you think of it most of the people who vote for this are on the receiving end not the paying for it end. Public union members and their families-those who receive any public aid like food stamps/subsidized housing/child care/Medicaid or any public health care or handout/etc. Adding up all these people are way over 2M voters statewide which is a large voting block mostly from Chicago and Cook county but scattered all over the state. Very few of these voters are not willing to bite the hand that feeds them. Nothing will change unless the taxpayers will be allowed… Read more »