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https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/columnists/george-will-in-the-disaster-that-is-chicago-its-teachers-union-plays-a-starring-role/article_bc80517f-b4bb-51fd-a790-2d55c96a13c9.html
Minority pupils compose 89 percent of Chicago’s public-school student body. In third through eighth grades, the percentage of Black students proficient in reading and math are 11 percent and 6 percent. Hispanics: 17 percent, 11 percent. The percentage of 11th-graders proficient on the SAT in reading and math: Black students 10 and 8; Hispanics: 16 and 17. In 22 schools, not a single student can read at grade level; in 33, not a single student can do math at grade level. Even the supposedly good news is disgusting: Last year, the graduation rate was a record high 82.9 percent — even though chronic absenteeism is 49 percent among low-income students.
These are the results of public-school operational spending increasing 58 percent in a decade, to $26,356 per pupil.
Not giving the parents of these children school choice because you’re so beholden to teacher’s unions is what actual racism in K-12 education looks like.