Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski joined WLS 890’s Pete McMurray and Judy Pielach to talk about how the Illinois education system isn’t preparing students for the future. Ted asked how struggling cities like Decatur are going to survive when the students entering the workforce can’t read to do math at grade level.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Poor achievement, zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Video
- Suburban Chicago school district controversy: No plan to fix black academic failure
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Special Report
- Why the Chicago Teachers Union Always Gets What It Wants
- How can 84% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate when only 26% of 11th graders are proficient in reading, math?
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.