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and the bottom 20% are functionally illiterate.
Not proficient at reading at an 8th grade level =/= functionally illiterate.
and the bottom 20% are functionally illiterate.
If the rate for those failing to graduate is 40% as some have cited that must mean that 60% are indeed graduating. That is a clear majority.
The move is an act of defiance against education reform groups whose policies have angered the union -- last year, the state legislature, led by the national advocacy group Stand for Children, passed a law that mandated specific teacher evaluations that count students' standardized test scores for 25 percent initially, and that specifically required that CTU have 75 percent of its membership agree to any strike. Months later, the group's leader Jonah Edelman was caught on tape boasting about how he outsmarted the unions in negotiating the bill.
It is as I described. Many are successful and graduate - a minority does not.
Really, Haymarket. Where is your fairness? Must you always defend the system? The system in the City of Chicago is broken. Can you not even acknowledge that a 40% dropout rate is abominable? Or is it because they're inner-city kids, and that's all you expect of them? It's got to be one or the other.
Yeah, but how much of that is where kids are passed that are borderline Special Ed? Then Passed and even for the same for graduation. So those Public Schools can make those Numbers and or quotas for AYP. Average yearly Progress.
A minority true... but that minority is a minority almost in name only a 40% drop out rate is staggering.
Not proficient at reading at an 8th grade level =/= functionally illiterate.
Really, Haymarket. Where is your fairness? Must you always defend the system? The system in the City of Chicago is broken. Can you not even acknowledge that a 40% dropout rate is abominable? Or is it because they're inner-city kids, and that's all you expect of them? It's got to be one or the other.
AYP is a fraud. It concerns me not in the least. If people knew how it really worked and the assumptions built into it they would trash it.
A 40% drop out rate, and a 20% functional illiteracy rate to start with.
What is 8th grade reading level, out of curiosity?
I remember, in the 8th grade, I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I was also big into the Dragon Lance books, in those days. I was a tiny bit of a nerd.
AYP is a fraud. It concerns me not in the least. If people knew how it really worked and the assumptions built into it they would trash it.
What you read isn't true. The teachers were presented an offer than includes a 3% increase for this year and a 2% increase for each of the next three years -- guaranteed. They also get step/lane increases which don't change from the last contract. Those average about 3.5% a year, as I understand it. Teachers earn an average of $73,351 a year. How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? « CBS Chicago
This isnt the exact site that I read it from...It might have been drudge this is obviously a right wing site...I saw these figures on a few sites
Humboldt Republicans: CHICAGO TEACHERS WALK OUT, TURN DOWN 16% PAY RAISE
I want to change the system. As you know from our previous conversation Maggie, I would completely and utterly scrap the entire system and start over from scratch.
CPS Budget PDF said:In addition, the CPS FY2012 operating budget is expected to be $5.11 billion, up from $4.94 billion in FY2011, an
increase of $163 million dollars at a time when revenues are declining.
Most novels, newspapers, magazines are written below an 8th grade level. I remember reading an article once talking about the scripts of sitcoms and how they're written on about a 3rd grade reading level (The Big Bang Theory excluded... ). 8th grade level would be like The Call of the Wild, Across Five Aprils, Heidi. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was probably written on a 5th - 6th grade level.
You cannot blame the failures of parents on that of educators. About 1/3 of high school drop outs occur in 9th grade!¡!
Call of the Wild was definately an easier read than the Rings trilogy, though. Never read Heidi, or Across Five Aprils. I can't remember when I read Call of the Wild...but I CAN remember I had a lot easier time reading it. Not trying to argue, I just would like a few more examples of 8th grade level books. Canticle for Lebowitz? Where does 1984 fall? That one was pretty easy, too. Honestly, I had a harder time with Shakespeare. Required more concentration.
You cannot blame the failures of parents on that of educators. About 1/3 of high school drop outs occur in 9th grade!¡!
1984 would probably be 8-9th. I remember Of Mice and Men is around a 6th grade level. The one author I can think of whose books are most likely 10-11th level is Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, etc.)
OK, according to their own budget
This is non capital expenditure.
They have 404,151 students...
which means total per student non-capital expenditure is 5,110,000,000/404,151= 12,643.79
This lower expenditure is because of a $712,000,000 deficit... there are still plenty of good schools that can be had with a 10K/student tuition.