Ted joined Steve Cochran to talk about Peoria’s dismal education results, how 10 of the 24 schools within SD 150 have no more than 5 out of 100 students able to read at grade level, why the education system lacks accountability, why Illinoisans are paying out-of-control property taxes to fund education, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Systemic failure in Peoria Public Schools. Same as in Decatur or Rockford or Chicago.
- Wirepoints’ School District Report Card page
- “The results are dismal. Most Peoria kids can’t read or do math at grade level. So we have to have a higher standard.” – Wirepoints on WMBD Peoria
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system
- Chicago Public Schools fails its Hispanic students: Only 17 of every 100 read at grade level.
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.
Here’s what happens when the tax bill comes in Florida.
Great Now tell us all about great Insurance Rates U pay 3-4 times the national average kinda all evens out doesn’t it
The smugness of those on the taxpayer payroll in Peoria is over the top – they think they are your ‘betters’.
Actually we’re paying for the early retirements and health care of public sector workers. Education and public services, roads and police protection……not so much.
The high taxes not going to education, but to pay overly generous pensions.
Much of the money spent is going out of state to retired workers.
Many have fled Illinois because of a long list of things that are wrong.
Thing is, we’re not paying some of the country’s highest property taxes for reading, writing and math ‘education’. District 150’s Superintendent set the record straight. Right in front of God and everybody. Academics are a ‘narrow view’ of education, she tells us. As if she needed to. District 150 hasn’t ‘graduated’ a class of students with more than 2 or 3 out of 10 capable of filling out a job application for a decade or more. Been telling us all that time, however, that the district’s teachers have all been doing a commendable or excellent or outstanding or heroic job.… Read more »
There’s nothing worse than paying high prices for a shit product. That’s something every Illinois taxpayer knows all too well.
Unfortunately that was one of my main drivers of moving out of state. All the thousands of dollars we spent for such an inferior product and service. Pathetic and more people and businesses are going to say enough is enough and leave. What will be left? Taxpayers of high net worth? Not likely.
Democrats want a poorly educated underclass that is lifelong dependent on welfare, so their votes can be harvested every election
That, my friend, is the succinctly worded truth!
Bingo!
Makes no difference. Peoria yhas turned Blue after decades of being Red.
Guv Pigchop hates Illinois and loves the high taxes. He wears a man girdle to keep his massive gut under control!
Two words – Broken Record!!
Folks, it’s time to end the union monopoly of education and encourage choice.
I’ve started a new phrase. I’m pro school choice!