Ted joined Perri Small on WVON to talk about why its such a problem for Tony Sanders – who ran a district where just two students in ten can read at grade level – to be promoted to State Superintendent, why teachers and administrators in Chicago and across the state get away with simply passing children up and out of the school system, why education is foundational to closing the economic gap for black Illinoisans, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Elgin’s Tony Sanders promoted to Illinois State Superintendent, though just 2 in 10 students in his district can read at grade level.
- Gov. Pritzker just proclaimed Illinois Disaster Declarations numbers 39, 40 and 41 through May 11, when he said his Emergency Orders will finally end
- New CPS data: Mayor Lightfoot, Chicago Teachers Union continue to keep dozens of empty, failing schools open
- 50 years of failure: Norman Lear’s ‘Good Times’ first criticized Chicago’s policy of automatically passing students in 1974. It’s still happening today.
Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
Imagine the medical industry run like Illinois public schools: 20% of patients in defined cohort’s survival rate.
Imagine the lawsuit feeding frenzy!
Perhaps the solution is to enable civil litigation for professional malpractice against negligent teachers and school admins?
If community taxpayers had to pay some huge civil settlements ‘on behalf’, perhaps communities would begin to pay attention and participate in finding better solutions (better for the victims, which is to say children who will be damaged for the rest of their lives by the processional negligence).
Yep, it’s the “systemic racism” the left just can’t talk about.
There is probably no measuring of this, but how many CPS teachers are raising children of their own? Are those who have children sending them to CPS schools? Order and discipline left the schools long ago but only complete negligence can explain the disappearance of reading skills.
Members of the Elgin community jointly agree: Tony Sanders leaves U-46 in much better shape than when he started. Apparently, they’re satisfied with this statistic from a previous Wirepoints report: Just 11 percent of Hispanic 3rd-graders could read at grade level. The board of education president also gives him high praise. She has no choice. With him, she’s overseen so much failure and has concealed the truth from the community. This is educational child abuse, and he’ll continue the abuse at the state level. Sickening.
No one in the education system cares about education. All they care about is great pay, great benefits, and a huge retirement at a young age. Get paid for showing up sometimes and the sooner you can retire to Florida the better. The numbers prove this, CPS is a lost hope. CTU only cares about money, money, and more money.