Ted joined Steve Cochran to discuss how Chicago Public Schools is spending a record $29,000 per student yet tens of thousands of students end up graduating neither college nor career ready. Nobody in the system cares because no one is held accountable.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Trapped in a death spiral: Chicago Public School spending hits record $29K per student as enrollment shrinks, outcomes plummet
- Gov. Pritzker name-calls rather than admit to Illinois’ dire educational outcomes
- Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal: Illinois’ Shocking Report Card. The Land of Lincoln is failing its children and covering it up.
- Don’t buy the hype: Chicago’s failing government schools aren’t a success story
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Education starts at home its not the schools fault
Exactly!
Ten years from now, the students who are not getting an education will be the parents of the next generation of students. And when the next generation doesn’t learn anything either, schools will blame the parents again as they always do. Doesn’t matter that the parents are also the products of a failing education system. But everyone associated with the failed school system will still have their secure jobs and pension, won’t they? Because that’s the only real purpose for this system. If the intention really were to educate, you would realize that sooner or later you will have to… Read more »
Dead bang reason to support school choice .
I just read a WSJ article that a student graduated from a Baltimore high school in the top 1/2 of his class with a 0.13 GPA. He had passed only 4 courses in 4 yrs. Teachers were unaware of his situation. Diploma revoked and the kid sent back to 9th grade. Teachers unaware?
Proof that money can’t buy an educational system. And proof that the outcome statistics are directly correlated to being born into a crappy family or a healthy family.
Or correlated to having a father present in the home. You’ll never see anything about educational achievement and fatherhood in the “hood” in the main stream media.
When I ended my teaching career at Harper High school in the late 70’s, the #3 ranked student in the senior class of over 300 graduates had a C+ Average (2.4 on a 4.0 scale for regular classes). Many factors contributed. Lindbloom Technical School filtered off bright neighborhood students. Teachers in elective classes, Art, Music, Business and Shops etc., gave away grades to avoid losing their position. The point is this expensive and unproductive exercise called CPS has been failing for 60 years.
Hmm, could the CTU/CPS symbiosis actually have systemic racists in their ranks?