Posted on 10/27/2021 10:00:41 AM PDT by Salman
Chicago Public Schools’ latest enrollment drop was spurred largely by students leaving the city for schools in the suburbs, downstate or entirely out of the state, plus children moving to city private schools, parents opting for homeschooling or kids falling off the district’s radar, new data released Wednesday shows.
The number of students falling into one of those categories totaled almost 26,000 and left CPS hanging on by a thread to its status as the third-largest district in the nation. The school system suffered its 10th consecutive year of falling enrollment, now down to 330,000 from last year’s 341,000, according to a tally on the 20th day of this school year.
“One of the questions that I’m asking ... as we’re seeing more children, what it appears to be, transferring outside of the city, is what are the offerings right now that we have across our neighborhood,” CEO Pedro Martinez said. “Do we have a clear standard of the quality of our offerings and programs, and how is that contributing to enrollment declines across some of these neighborhoods?”
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It appears that Chicago is leading the way that most American major cities will go.
Do they have a category for students shot and killed?
You have one chance to educate a child. One.
If it is done well, the child has a good chance to grow and prosper and be happy. If it is done poorly, the child will suffer for a lifetime and probably not have a good life or a good end.
Wise parents know this. Stupid ones trust unquestioningly in government “experts”, and their children get swindled.
One chance...
The regional inner suburbs have had an interesting issue over the years.
Residents of the big city (inside the ring of suburbs) found a very clever way to keep their kids out of the big city schools.
They had the kids stay with grandma (in the suburb) during the school week. The suburban school district was shown grandma’s house as the kid’s address. The bus picked the kids up and dropped them off at grandma’s house. Often the rest of the family would visit grandma for dinner each weekday night for a nice family re-union.
Homo Sapiens is very clever at doing the “impossible”.
Gee, if this keeps up the unionized teachers will be out of a job and won’t be able to lease another luxury SUV.
You know, YES they want to continue to run their government financed child warrior indoctrination camps, but at the same time, if there are no kids, they still get to keep their budget, so that means they can all get hefty raises. (Because if you attempt to adjust their budget, you’re CLEARLY anti-education, and EVERYONE knows that public schools are where the minority children go, so you are also racist).
That's 11,000 students lost. Wonder what affect that has on Fed funds, which are per pupil?
CPS Chinese Propaganda System
Soon the public schools will only be attended by the bratty undisciplined that no one wants to deal with and teachers will quit. good job liberals.
Aborting most of CPS’s future students is counter-productive.
Sad.
“Soon the public schools will only be attended by the bratty undisciplined that no one wants to deal with and teachers will quit. good job liberals.”
and public support for tax-payer funded K-12 will plummet and any tax increases that require voter approval will fail ...
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