by Reagan Reese
In 55 Chicago Public Schools, not one student met grade level expectations in either math or reading during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a Wirepoints report.
Out of 649 Chicago Public Schools, 22 schools have zero students who met grade level expectations for reading while no students were proficient in math in 33 schools during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a Wirepoints report. The data analyzed is from the Illinois State Board of Education annual report which details how schools within the state are performing.
“Defenders of the current system are sure to invoke COVID as the big reason for the low scores,” Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner, authors of the report, stated. “But a look at the 2019 numbers show that the reading and math numbers were only slightly better than they are now.”
Within the state of Illinois, 30 schools did not have any students read at grade level during the 2021-2022 school year, the report stated. Approximately 53 schools in Illinois have zero students proficient in math.
In 930 schools within the state, just one out of ten students meet math grade-level expectations, the report stated. In 622 Illinois schools, one out of ten students, or fewer, are reading proficiently.
The report comes as the nation battles historic learning loss; since 2019, every state has seen a decline in its students’ math scores while the nation’s reading scores dropped to fall in line with numbers from 1990.
“The bottom line is everyone suffered in the pandemic.. because of the pandemic,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in October. “The disruption was everywhere, and it was bad regardless of whether schools were remote or in person. We are focused now on the urgent need to help kids recover and thrive.”
Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 #Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools. Not 1 single student. Education data from @ISBEnews
It's yet another indictment of the state’s educational system. Via @Wirepointshttps://t.co/rMZlnHjcgK #twill #SchoolChoice… pic.twitter.com/meKyUDo7sk
— Wirepoints (@Wirepoints) February 14, 2023
Of the 33 schools without a student testing proficient in math, the Illinois State Board of Education rated seven as “commendable,” the second-highest accountability rating that can be awarded, the report stated. Approximately six schools of the 22 with zero students reading at grade-level were awarded a “commendable” rating from the Board of Education.
Chicago Public Schools did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Reagan Reese is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Teacher and Students in Class” by Max Fischer.
It makes no difference how many democratic voters finally realize how worthless their political parties policies are, for example the subject of this commentary. The democratic party machine is sooooo corrupt and has turned election cheating into an art form. No matter how many people of all political parties vote against the corrupt machine, the democrats still remain in power and continue to drive our nation into the dumpster.
I am willing to bet that there are more that just the 55 Chicago schools are experiencing the same issues. All one has to do is pay attention to what the left is wanting to teach other than what is necessary to succeed in the outside world.
This is not surprising. COVID distancing protocols certainly had impact as did woke ideology where focus wasn’t on STEM but CRT. I am aware of many teachers, good teachers, having left the profession in being coerced to teach in what they know is wrong. At the same time, a number of teachers who remained, have no business teaching nor skills to do the same. Rather than doubling down on STEM the woke will simply dumb down the curriculum and boast of test result improvement. Sadly, and Tennessee is following the same path, is to politicize school board positions, to make them partisan, so the dying woke mob hangs on.