Race

[mqt]

Are we ok with this racism?

Technically any white person in those neighborhoods can apply as well, but I’m not so sure this is anti-white racism so much as it is a really, really, really reckless financial idea that reminds me that nobody learned anything from the last crash. Seems like transparent pandering to get black and Latino folks to sign onto mortgages they cannot afford.

[Krgrecw]

More than 50 people were shot across the city of Chicago over the Labor Day weekend, and as families mourn the victims of those shootings, others are also feeling the heartache that gun violence has wrought.



I’m astonished the media and the liberal losers in here won’t mention this at all. The hypocrites don’t give a **** about blacks at all

[57Brave]

Maybe it isn't the " blacks"

Maybe we take the guns out of gun violence?
Like the rest of the civilized world.
No, like "the" civilized world

Maybe we address the poverty ...

[thethe]

More than 50 people were shot across the city of Chicago over the Labor Day weekend, and as families mourn the victims of those shootings, others are also feeling the heartache that gun violence has wrought.



I’m astonished the media and the liberal losers in here won’t mention this at all. The hypocrites don’t give a **** about blacks at all

Success for minorities only hurts the Democrats.

[Krgrecw]

Maybe it isn't the " blacks"

Maybe we take the guns out of gun violence?
Like the rest of the civilized world.
No, like "the" civilized world

Maybe we address the poverty ...

Lol. Every bullet was fired at blacks by other blacks.

[acesfull86]

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illi...1807f.amp.html


(The Center Square) – A new report shows a decade-long problem of low test scores and enrollment decline for Chicago Public Schools.

Analysis shows CPS has lost about 63,500 students during the past decade. That leaves about one-third of CPS’ traditional, non-charter schools less than half full. Five schools are less than 10% full, according to the analysis.

At the same time, district proficiency is at record lows. For example, in 2020-2021, only 21% of third- through eighth-grade students scored as proficient in reading, and only 16% scored as proficient in math.

Despite the issues plaguing the district, the schools still receive larger amounts of funding each year, according to IPI's Mailee Smith.

"People are seeing their property taxes increase, and the schools are getting more funding because of it," Smith said. "Unfortunately, within CPS, that is not correlating with a better academic outcome for the students."

Despite the 10-year loss in student population, state and local funding for the district is up 40%, an increase of nearly $2 billion over 10 years.

CPS test scores have been trending downward for years, with student reading proficiency dropping 70% and math proficiency dropping 80% since 2010.


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I agree w 57 that poverty needs to be addressed. One of the best long term ways to reduce poverty is to provide kids with an actual education. Time to get school choice in Chicago and stop funneling more and more money into the same failing public schools. Give poor minority kids a way out of this mess.

[thethe]

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illi...1807f.amp.html


(The Center Square) – A new report shows a decade-long problem of low test scores and enrollment decline for Chicago Public Schools.

Analysis shows CPS has lost about 63,500 students during the past decade. That leaves about one-third of CPS’ traditional, non-charter schools less than half full. Five schools are less than 10% full, according to the analysis.

At the same time, district proficiency is at record lows. For example, in 2020-2021, only 21% of third- through eighth-grade students scored as proficient in reading, and only 16% scored as proficient in math.

Despite the issues plaguing the district, the schools still receive larger amounts of funding each year, according to IPI's Mailee Smith.

"People are seeing their property taxes increase, and the schools are getting more funding because of it," Smith said. "Unfortunately, within CPS, that is not correlating with a better academic outcome for the students."

Despite the 10-year loss in student population, state and local funding for the district is up 40%, an increase of nearly $2 billion over 10 years.

CPS test scores have been trending downward for years, with student reading proficiency dropping 70% and math proficiency dropping 80% since 2010.


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I agree w 57 that poverty needs to be addressed. One of the best long term ways to reduce poverty is to provide kids with an actual education. Time to get school choice in Chicago and stop funneling more and more money into the same failing public schools. Give poor minority kids a way out of this mess.

The left thinks this is a quick fix by throwing money at the problem. It will take decades of smart policies like this one to make real change.

[Krgrecw]

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illi...1807f.amp.html


(The Center Square) – A new report shows a decade-long problem of low test scores and enrollment decline for Chicago Public Schools.

Analysis shows CPS has lost about 63,500 students during the past decade. That leaves about one-third of CPS’ traditional, non-charter schools less than half full. Five schools are less than 10% full, according to the analysis.

At the same time, district proficiency is at record lows. For example, in 2020-2021, only 21% of third- through eighth-grade students scored as proficient in reading, and only 16% scored as proficient in math.

Despite the issues plaguing the district, the schools still receive larger amounts of funding each year, according to IPI's Mailee Smith.

"People are seeing their property taxes increase, and the schools are getting more funding because of it," Smith said. "Unfortunately, within CPS, that is not correlating with a better academic outcome for the students."

Despite the 10-year loss in student population, state and local funding for the district is up 40%, an increase of nearly $2 billion over 10 years.

CPS test scores have been trending downward for years, with student reading proficiency dropping 70% and math proficiency dropping 80% since 2010.


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I agree w 57 that poverty needs to be addressed. One of the best long term ways to reduce poverty is to provide kids with an actual education. Time to get school choice in Chicago and stop funneling more and more money into the same failing public schools. Give poor minority kids a way out of this mess.

You can blame poverty it if was a poverty issue, but why doesn’t this happen in poor white areas? This doesn’t just happen in impoverished hoods

It’s more about culture than poverty.

[thethe]

You can blame poverty it if was a poverty issue, but why doesn’t this happen in poor white areas? This doesn’t just happen in impoverished hoods

It’s more about culture than poverty.

The ghetto public schools in these liberal ****holes are breeding grounds for the criminals.

Improve the schools and you improve the culture.

[Krgrecw]

The ghetto public schools in these liberal ****holes are breeding grounds for the criminals.

Improve the schools and you improve the culture.

This starts with the families and not schools.

[thethe]

This starts with the families and not schools.

I 100% agree with this concept but it hasn't worked yet and because poor people have to work more there is less time of direct parental involvement. Thats why the schools need to be safer areas for the kids in these shooting grounds.

[acesfull86]

This starts with the families and not schools.

I don’t disagree, but it’s easier & more practical for governments to address education.

[Krgrecw]

I 100% agree with this concept but it hasn't worked yet and because poor people have to work more there is less time of direct parental involvement. Thats why the schools need to be safer areas for the kids in these shooting grounds.

True. But the educations systems hands are tied. My friends are teachers, and they all say the school really can’t do **** to bad kids.

Only way to really fix this is to have positive black leaders call it out and fix it one house at a time. We need to hold people accountable. Drug dealers, horrible DA’s, judges, liberal media

[thethe]

True. But the educations systems hands are tied. My friends are teachers, and they all say the school really can’t do **** to bad kids.

Only way to really fix this is to have positive black leaders call it out and fix it one house at a time. We need to hold people accountable. Drug dealers, horrible DA’s, judges, liberal media

Elect the right politicians and take a data based approach to crime fighting. Yes that means STOP AND FRISK.

Otherwise, the education needs to be completely overhauled and until that happens black youth are screwed. Too many 57's who want the status quo of pretending to care by throwing money at a loser.

[57Brave]

No, 57 sees one constant in gun violence.
It doesn't require throwing money at anything.

All these critical thinkers having a hard time getting out of the paper bag.

[sturg33]

Chicago should finally get around to passing some strict gun control measures.

Not sure what's taking so long

[57Brave]

Like I said ...

[sturg33]

The common denominator in these shootings is black men

[mqt]

You can blame poverty it if was a poverty issue, but why doesn’t this happen in poor white areas? This doesn’t just happen in impoverished hoods

It’s more about culture than poverty.

They’re too busy ODing on Fentanyl?

[Tapate50]

They’re too busy ODing on Fentanyl?

It could very well be.

Man those stories of Fentanyl looking candy make my skin crawl.