Former NYT reporter Mary Walsh features Wirepoints’ recent trip to Peoria in a piece that looks at the state of public education in the city. Back in the days of the Nixon Administration, White House political operatives gauged every public policy decision against a question: “will it play in Peoria?” The article covers what’s playing in Peoria now.
Read: What’s playing in Peoria?*
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Systemic failure in Peoria Public Schools. Same as in Decatur or Rockford or Chicago.
- Wirepoints’ School District Report Card page
- Wirepoints’ Peoria Presentation
- “The results are dismal. Most Peoria kids can’t read or do math at grade level. So we have to have a higher standard.” – Wirepoints on WMBD Peoria
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system
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.
New Transfer Tax is a tax on BUYERS. It’s a real-estate growth/ new apartment housing killer. per crains:
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Peoria schools are increasingly just another big city 3rd world cesspool. Had been for a long time. Less than 20% White and going down! Richwoods was an exception to this this but no longer. The same liberals who vote for Democrats either send their kids to private schools or have moved to neighboring areas such as Dunlap. You could have the best teachers in the world in those schools and it would make only a modest difference. Will get even worse as Pritzker new mandates to teach more non White history that is, in effect racist anti White and will… Read more »
Exactly.
Too few academic-performance engaged parents left in District 150. Far outnumbered by parents who are just fine with public schools working as a day-care way station for Black children, on their thoroughly-counseled and trauma-informed K-12 road to intergenerational public-aid dependency.
That means it’s working
I would like to see a comparison of Peoria’s school scores today compared with the scores a couple of decades ago before the racial makeup of the students changed. The results might be quite different
Has Wirepoints received any rebuttals from superintendents?
Yes. Portly pugsley da pigster doesn’t care about Illinois or what wirepoints prints.
This judge is fake👆👆👆
Da REAL Judge.
Amazing how the student test scores are avoided by those in charge. Best teachers -Pffft! Best schools – Pffft! Something is wrong and everyone knows it.
Yep, you’re right. Everyone does know it. None the less, it’s dropped right out of the news cycle here in Peoria like you might expect someone to drop a live hand grenade.
With school just starting, there is a bunch of ‘school’ news on the local broadcast stations websites. Just nothing about the fact that Muffin and Bobby aren’t learning to read.
WHAT NERVE!….. Typical derogatory profile from a former New York Times writer. Always coming to Peoria, Illinois,to find fault with something. Whether it’s our public schools, crime rate, racial issues, etc. Outsiders have no business meddling in other city’s affairs without an invitation. The last thing that our community needs is unwanted criticism from outsiders.
Best sarcasm I’ve read in a while.
The Peoria schools chief castigated Mr Dabrowski for not explaining the negative historical impact of racism. One thing that is overlooked by the left is that black academic achievement improved from 1970 to the mid 80’s. So much so that if the rate of improvement continued we would not have the achievement gaps we see today. My reaction to the 1970 – 85 period was that this is what was anticipated with the civil rights gains. Expected but still a positive thing. But why the regression since 1985? There is likely no one factor but it is this dismal record… Read more »
Sometimes, an unbiased outsider’s viewpoint is needed. Please don’t emulate Lightfoot and Johnson admonishing people that don’t live in Chicago to “ keep dat word out dey moufs “.
Fair criticism should be accepted regardless of the source. And the awful numbers speak for themselves. I attended Glen Oak Grade School and Woodruff High School. Both had terrific teachers and a good racial and socioeconomic mix, with lots of students doing well (or at least not failing) academically. Seems that’s not the case now. Until the fatherless household problem is fixed, academic performance will continue to decline and crime and other social pathologies will persist in too many neighborhoods in Peoria.
Certainly hope this comment is ‘tongue in cheek.’
If not, don’t let your ego get in the way of the kids … kids who deserve a decent education and eventually a good way to make a living that doesn’t include ‘smash and grab’ tactics.
The future depends on an educated populace!