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The district is proposing to end the use of test scores in promotion decisions permanently, according to a draft policy shared with principals last month. It would also shift the grades in which a student can be held back, and add science and social studies to math and reading on the list of subjects students must pass. Under the proposed policy, elementary students receiving academic interventions would be automatically promoted. The new policy would also
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Just give everyone a participation trophy and go home
As long as Chicago teachers are some of the highest paid in the country with great benefits and huge pensions at a young age, What is the Problem? Only problem teachers have is finding a U-Haul to move out of state as soon as the pension comes in.
Repeating a grade has always been something to be avoided- that’s nothing new. It motivated students to learn and teachers to teach. Maybe if the education system looked at WHY there are so many students not passing, they wouldn’t have to worry about holding so many back. Oh wait, they already know what the problem is- systemic racism! And the parents. Can’t have anything to do with the education system itself for the last several decades. They are the experts after all! This has gone on long enough that now they are sure the populace is dumb enough to accept… Read more »
Where is the comparison of math and reading scores from the ’90s versus now?
The article does go on and on and on … and it appears social promotion wins the day.
Chicago is preparing for the future – a future of ignorant voters.
Stupid chickens.
An article that goes on and on (and on and on and on) without once mentioning that 80% of Chicago’s K-12 students can’t read, write or do math at grade level.
K-12 schooling in Illinois is little more than vastly expensive taxpayer-funded nanny-state day care services and PC indoctrination, camouflaged (not very well) as “education.”
Pay raises to the teachers would solve the reading and math problems according to the union.
Why not? According the their performance evaluations, CTU teachers are all above-average or exceptional.
Yep, they ought to be teaching in the Lake Woebegon School District!
For the Children. NOT
Paid activists to indoctrinate for Marxism.
What do you want for $30K per student? accountability?–come on man this is Chicago!!