More CPS students are graduating high school, but finishing college is a challenge – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

The overall college completion rate for CPS alumni is 48 percent — below the national average of 64 percent, according to an annual study from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the To&Through Project.
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Sanity please
8 months ago

Perhaps if they finish learning the alphabet and
learning to speak properly, bro.
how about simple mathematics.
they might get higher scores

daskoterzar
8 months ago

So, CPS pushes kids (passing or failing) out the door and through the system. This of course, Improves their completion rate and justifies more money. Dumps them into a public university system through tax payer funded programs and loans where most flounder and drop out. But “more work needs to be done” to help those disadvantaged students through to match the “wealthier students”. Pouring thousands of unqualified students into an over priced state tax payer funded higher education system (another government agency) and expecting the tax payer to again fund more and more financial programs is simply a shell game… Read more »

Irish Patriot
8 months ago
Reply to  daskoterzar

They’re all passing, not failing. CPS isn’t supposed to teach kids to read. The purpose of CPS is to transform poor children into future activists and Democrat voters. This is because, as I heard on the radio once, the CTU’s constituency isn’t CPS teachers, it’s the politicians. CTU’s product, what the CTU produces, is left-wing activist teachers, on behalf of the politicians they support financially. This is why the speak of stakeholders rather than union members. Everyone is a stakeholder in the Union but by law unfortunately only teachers can vote in leadership elections. It’s a feature, not a bug,… Read more »

Bob
8 months ago

Not graduating with any skills !!! Just being pushed through the system!!

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