Ted joined Enrique Rodríguez of Univision to talk about how Illinois’ education system is failing its Hispanic students. Just 18% of Hispanic students can read at grade level in Illinois. Meanwhile, education spending rises, taxes constantly increase and residents’ home values suffer.
Chicago’s Hispanic communities, in particular, have been hit hard by the city’s property tax hikes, yet student outcomes haven’t improved. In CPS, just 17% of Hispanic students can read at grade level.
Check out Wirepoints’ School District Report Cards to see the student outcomes in your area.
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- Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools
- Six facts Gov. Pritzker doesn’t want you to know about Illinois’ 2022 Report Card
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system
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.
Interested in “Evidence-Based’? Woodstock CUSD 200 has provided ‘dual language’ education for more than a full 12-year cycle of student-attendance years (K-12)…at enormous expense to local property taxpayers: Woodstock D200 property tax rates have been 3.5%-4.8% for over a decade. Dual-language education has been touted to imply better outcomes for Hispanic demographic students in ELA? Look up Illinois School Report Cards for 2019 (Pre-Covid, and pre-gerrymandering of data or broken links+missing data presented by ISBE). Of Hispanic demographic, 16% Meet expectations, 3% exceed. This is 19% compared to 18% State outcomes. Have Woodstock taxpayers and homeowners suffered to pay for… Read more »
Woodstock will never recover because it’s too close to the WI border. Why live in Woodstock when you can go a few miles north and live in WI. All of IL is like this.
Or we could stop blaming the students and instead say “82% have not been taught to read at grade level.”
18% seems high. I do not think most of the CPS teachers can do that good.
Great job Ted!! It would be great to seeing you doing more reach out to Latino community in Spanish no less!!. Very impressive. Or, maybe a ton of work, how about wp Spanish version? I really think the latino community & immigrant communities feel shafted by phonie fake progressive left bs.
Sadly, my Spanish wasn’t up to most of this, but I could follow bits and pieces, particularly since much of the interview audio was accompanied by slides. It was certainly well done – newscaster well spoken, good use of visuals (better than most of the ‘quality’ I see on network news). Made a compelling case for Illinois having failed its students broadly, and Hispanic students particularly, at vast expense. Loved the emphasis on Illinois’ 80-some-odd + % graduation rate vs the 30% at grade level scholastic scores, but 90% of teachers evaluated as doing an outstanding job. Interesting that Univision… Read more »
YouTube.
Flipped Classrooms channel (by Sethi De Clercq).
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The CPS is not set up for education. The only job skills learned are criminal in nature.
There are no jobs in most of the neighborhoods as they have all left the state for better opportunities. Ken Griffen is the happiest man in the world now.
Part of the hispanic shift to the right occurring around the country.