Showing posts with label dropouts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dropouts. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Juking the stats on graduation rates

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Bernard Gassaway is a former New York City public schools teacher, principal, and superintendent of alternative schools and programs of ...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Question for the Mayor

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CPAA Pres. Troy LaRaviere on Hitting Left says Rahm forced CPS principals to lobby for school funding/vouchers bill.  If public schools ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

More on Betsy DeVos' love affair with Florida's charter school system

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Here's a follow-up on yesterday's post about Betsy DeVos' love affair with Florida's "choice" system, a syste...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

WEEKEND QUOTABLES: Not dropouts at CPS. Rather, 'transferring to motherhood'

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FOX 32 News Chicago Sarah Karp, BGA "[At CPS] There was widespread misclassification of students...They were classified as transf...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Here's the problem with 'data-driven" school reform. You need good data.

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  Rahm projected an 82% graduation rate when he ran for office. “No one questions the facts: more CPS students are graduating than eve...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Rahm's school administrators cooked the books on dropouts

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“The annual OIG report is a testament of our cooperation and demonstrates we do not tolerate any wrongdoing, and CPS has either addressed o...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Does Rahm deserve the credit for bump in grad rates? Uh uh.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett claim credit for a reported 4% bump in CPS grad rates .  Rahm Eman...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Chicago Tonight's panel of "experts". No teachers allowed.

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Just watched Chicago Tonight show on dropout prevention. Shouldn't have eaten first. The panel, which included CPS' new accountab...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Study: Why do so many kids drop out?

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The 2012 High School Dropouts in America survey finds that the great majority of kids who leave school early, do so because of out-of-school...