Ted joined Brian Barnhart on News-Gazette’s Penny for Your Thoughts to talk about the poor education results in Champaign and Urbana’s public schools. In Champaign, 54% of white and just 10% of black 3rd-graders can read at grade level. It’s worse in Urbana – just 28% of white and 6% of black 3rd-graders are reading-proficient.
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A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Cease teaching anything else besides reading , writing and Math until you have at least 90% proficiency rate. If you cannot do that , develop a program of education that can!
Pushing illiterates forward is not helping the individual or society any good at all.
Because George Bush made Federalizing Education his mission. No child left behind.
The American educational system soon learned that the appearance of being successful had started to trump the tolerance for the continuing struggle of being so, thus further institutionalizing social promotions.
After Affirmative Action points are added all of these so called graduates will look like they have an IQ of 250.
“Why are we moving kids through the system when they can preform?” Answer: because the teachers are too busy with social indoctrination brainwashing kids with climate change BS and how to identify proper pronouns to use or how to be outraged by not being allowed to kill the unborn and harvest fetal tissue for cosmetics.