Forrest Claypool: Chicago Public Schools is losing the hard-won progress it’s made over 25 years – Chicago Tribune*

"When then-President Bill Clinton traveled to Chicago in 1998 to proclaim, 'I want what is happening in Chicago to happen all over America,' he stood in front of an oversized chalkboard that read: 'Standards + Accountability = Excellence.' With weakening standards and oversight, a rollback of parental choice and accountability diffused among a committee of nearly two dozen elected school board members, many bankrolled by the CTU, Chicago’s public schools face a troubling future."
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Hello, Indiana !
1 year ago

Losing chushy jobs and getting some accountability is a poison to a life long Dem.

Nostradamus
1 year ago

Did Claypool just wake up from a long nap? Chicago’s school system is a disgrace and the only thing progressing is the salary schedules of the members of the CTU!

Free at Last
1 year ago

What progress? Is he serious?

debtsor
1 year ago
Reply to  Free at Last

Democrats live in a carefully crafted world of fantasy and make-believe where they have to virtue signal that CPS is a beacon of excellence. This of course is all lies.

P T Bombast
1 year ago
Reply to  debtsor

“Marketing” still makes use of subliminal perception and, in my view, the media is trying to sell us Harris while undermining Trump. This is accomplished through headlines or captions which are often the only content people read. (Few will read the rare apology!) Who knows the motive of the Tribune’s false headline? It may be to spare Chicago yet another bruise in reputation elsewhere in the world. One can’t help but think the editors know well that the headline is a lie. The First Amendment protects such lies, of course and the decision to print it may have been to curry… Read more »

Ex Illini
1 year ago
Reply to  Free at Last

If the last 25 years represent progress the City of Chicago should just shut it all down. It is an epic, extremely expensive disaster.

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