You think it’s bad now.
Wait until the Democrats get complete control of it in a few weeks.
Arne Duncan is the current head of Chicago Public Schools and has been tapped to be the Secretary of Education for The Messiah. If Duncan brings the accomplishments from Chicago to Washington, we’re all in trouble.
Under his leadership, CPS has failed to meet the Illinois state standards set under the federal No Child Left Behind Act the last five years. In fact, CPS is on academic watch status because of its failure to make any progress.
In 2006, 58 percent of students in the Chicago Public Schools met the state standards in reading and 59.7 percent met the state standards in mathematics. Both percentages were above the set 47.5 percent AYP success rate for that year.
However, to be counted as making Adequate Yearly Progress, schools must also achieve proficiency for all subgroups of students–White, Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial/Ethnic, Limited English Proficiency (LEP), Students with Disabilities and the Economically Disadvantaged (ED).
In 2006, for example, only 20.2 percent of Chicago’s “Students with Disabilities” subgroup met the state reading standards, and only 22.9 percent met the math requirement–both well below the expected percentage. As a result, the Chicago school district did not meet AYP goals in 2006.
In 2008, meanwhile, 60.1 percent of all students for the district achieved the standard in reading, which was below the 62.5 percent level required for that year.
The Black subgroup failed to meet the minimum level of proficiency in both reading and math, and the Hispanic subgroup fell short in reading along with the LEP and ED subgroups. The Students with Disabilities subgroup failed to achieve goals in both reading and math.
In addition, only 17 percent of 8th grade students in CPS can read at grade level.
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report for 2007, Chicago public schools have consistently performed below the national average during Duncan’s tenure.
The report measures students at the fourth and eighth grade levels in the subjects of reading, math, science, and writing, and ranks them at below basic, basic, proficient, or advanced levels.
Students in eighth grade are those most likely to have been in the Chicago system for a majority of Duncan’s tenure. CNSNews.com used the scores for these students to best determine the results of Duncan’s administration.
By 2007, only 17 percent of Chicago eighth graders were at or above grade level in reading. Thirteen percent scored at or above grade level in math. Twenty-three percent scored at or above grade level in writing.
By 2005, the only year Chicago participated in the NEAP assessment program, 16 percent of eighth grade students were at or above grade level in science.
Nationally, students did much better on average in reading, math, science, and writing.
In 2007, 29 percent of eighth grade students scored at or above grade-level in reading, 31 percent in math, and 31 percent in writing. In 2005, 27 percent of eighth grade students were at or above grade level in science.
These figures are stunning for a district that has a $4.6 billion budget. Spending per pupil was $10,555, about 90 percent going toward education-related expenses.
Just what are they doing in Chicago? Well, one of Duncan’s priorities was an all-homosexual high school. And there are all sorts of ties between Duncan and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the project of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Hussein Obama to radicalize Chicago’s schools.
In other words, turn the students into mindless little leftwing rabble-rousers community activists before making them proficient in reading and math so they can actually make something of themselves.
Our gummint-run skoolz will become even more of the propaganda and brainwashing centers over the next 8 to 10 years. The students will be properly prepared to go out and continue to vote Democrat mindlessly. Works just like it did in the former Soviet Union and continues to in Red China and Cuber.
Our schools will feature more and more of this:
And this:
Every totalitarian state needs to produce its mind-numbed robots programmed to follow orders.
And to think schools used to be institutions of learning. Now they are just mindless propaganda centers for the state.
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