Rahm Touts BS
- If a school district's graduation rate is an indicator of improvement, then Chicago Public Schools is improving.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and school officials announced Tuesday that 63 percent of high school seniors will graduate on time this year, marking CPS' highest graduation rate ever.
But then we heard a report on NewsRadio 780 that quoted Karen Lewis (we think). She stated that since they started using a new formula thirteen years ago, the CPS definition of "highest rate ever" actually only dates back to 1999. WBBM doesn't seem to have that report online any longer, or if they do, it's well hidden. After all, numbers embarrassing to Rahm are simply not reported.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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That's not saying much. In 2010-2011 school year the States rate was 83%. Imagine if the State pulled CPS numbers from reporting how well they would do. If you look at the report, for the State 66% is the rate for children with disabilities. 75% for economically disadvantaged.
Rahm must be so proud.
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/high-school-graduation-rates-by-state.html
"Rahm Touts BS and the Media Eats It Up"
In other news: Bear Shits in Woods.
a school district's graduation rate is an indicator of improvement, then Chicago Public Schools is improving...........
Which newspaper had this grammatical error.
Chicago Public Schools ARE improving
How about that $50,000 dollars in construction equipment stolen in the mayors green zone (south loop) this weekend!
The city is safe - crime is down. The south loop is gonna pull the entire state out of crisis -- if you buy the propaganda.
The turning their lives around honor roll students got a survey machine and some laptops from the heist.
Actually Bill Cameron from WLS spoke with the CPS Chief who said that the "matrix of graduation" was only in effect since 1999 so that is the begining of this "historical era".
So the other 140+ yrs of Chicago public education did not exist. Be interesting to see what the faith based ( catholic etc) graduation rate is.
Is Obama in town yet?
Washington Times says:
Obama and the Chicago Way: Intimidate, silence and destroy 'enemies'
[..]..The approach is to do whatever is necessary to silence or destroy enemies and exalt friends so that other people will know how they should act. They must learn to expect swift and severe repercussions for disobedience.
This term has developed because of the unmatched and outrageous corruption that has always permeated the political environment in Illinois, and Chicago specifically. For example, four out of the last seven governors of Illinois went to federal prison, and between 1976 and 2010, there were 1,531 arrests of public officials in the federal district dominated by Chicago. This is far more than in any other similarly sized city.
YAY WE"RE NUMBER ONE!!!
This is exactly how Obama and his inner circle of Chicago politicians have been running the U.S. government since he got into office. This approach to governance has produced the AP and IRS scandals, with others before those and more certain to follow.
The IRS (with over 90,000 employees) and the federal tax code (over 73,900 pages long) are the perfect instruments for a dictatorial government to use to attack its political enemies. The tax code is so complex that it can be used to pursue and destroy any individual or group successfully. If the back taxes and fines don’t finish the job, the massive legal and accounting fees in addition to the destruction of the enemy’s reputation in the business world should be enough to silence the rest of the opposition.
For example, Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who donated one million dollars to the Romney campaign, says that immediately following his donation he was personally audited by both the IRS and the Labor Department. In addition, his business was audited by the IRS and he was investigated by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. That comes to a total of five federal investigations. In legal fees alone, Mr. VanderSloot spent over $100,000 fighting these audits. The IRS didn’t issue any fines or back taxes, but they sure sent a message to him and others like him: Stay silent or we will silence you.
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In March of 2010, the same month the Democrats finished ramming the healthcare bill down the American people’s throats, the division of the IRS that processes tax exempt organizations started using a BOLO (“be on the lookout”) list. This list included any organization with any of the following words in its name: “tea party,” “conservative,” “patriot,” or “constitution.”
USA Today reports that before March of 2010, both tea party and progressive or liberal groups were having no problem getting 501 (c) (4) approval. Then, all of a sudden....
Read the whole thing at the above link.
The job of the corporate media is to sell the talking points of the powers that be to the people.
And they're using a five year yardstick, instead of four.
Keep selling the lies, spin-doctor. That's what you are - just a manipulator.
Of course they will all graduate. They lowered the test standards, lowered the difficulty of study material, and made it so easy anyone can pass. School too violent? Bus'em into other schools! CPS has been ruined over the past century due to chicago politics and hood rats. Test too hard? Make it easier! Typical hood logic. It won't work in the real world though.
And how many of them can even read or write? They will soon be living the lie that is their graduations when they get out into the real world and see how ill prepared they are.
But I bet every single one of them thinks the world is about to end because of global warming and that they’re living in white oppressive society. On that you can be assured.
A friend of mine, who is a former CPS principle, told me he would get phone calls from CPS headquarters wanting him to magically pass 8th graders he had failed in order to move them on to HS and keep the graduation rate up.
Quantity not Quality.
It's all about the numbers.
Keep drinking the kool-ade fools.
Anonymous said...
a school district's graduation rate is an indicator of improvement, then Chicago Public Schools is improving...........
Which newspaper had this grammatical error.
Chicago Public Schools ARE improving
5/29/2013 12:25:00 AM
No, that's correct. Your subject is the proper name being used to refer to one entity: Chicago Public Schools - a singular. It's like saying "John is improving."
Now, if not using the proper noun identifying an entity, and you're talking about the public schools of Chicago, then it would be "Chicago public schools are improving" because the subject is the schools (with Chicago and public modifying the noun).
Watch....the next Rahm-generated number will be CPS freshman students on path to graduate...meaning very little students getting F's. Though, by all right students with 15+ absences, 30+ tardies, and failing grades should be getting F's when they'll get passing grades at the teacher's discretion.
Some teachers, like those at Prosser Career High School under Principal Kenneth Hunter's leadership, have been told to give possible failing students extra work or countless breaks in an affort to get Prosser's "Freshman on Path to Graduate' number into the 98% range when the number should be in the low 80% range.
Let's tell the truth here. The school closing reflect the ghetto neighborhoods that have been destroyed by ghetto people. Vacant lots due to arson fire do not increase the population. Gang bangers and dope dealers do not go to school.
They are only counting from 1999 forward. All the prior years don't count. And the new formula includes FIVE (5) years of high school.
I am so sick of the propaganda.
Don't forget, schools are punished on the CPS performance metric if freshman fail classes, sophomores fail classes, or seniors don't graduate. So, "high performing" schools pass everybody because of pressure. The numbers mean nothing. Look at the test scores. Subtract the school's freshman explorer scores from the school's ACT scores. Roughly, if there is a 4 point gain or more, the school has done a solid job. That's all that really matters. Everything else is BS to make the Board look good.
a passing grade at the ag school in mt.greenwood is 60% wtf!
Hey those teachers keep voting Democrat, what am I supposed to do?
Graduation rates improved only in the sense that the CPS has become a diploma mill operation. Apart from a select few "privilege academies" catering to the city's elites, CPS high schools are churning out functional illiterates and issuing them diplomas. More importantly, the CPS provides the families with graduation photos that can be used by the media when their children are arrested or murdered. For many, these are the only photographs that they will have until they pose for mug shots.
Whoa!!! What the F**k is this???
NBC Chicago, Ward Room:"Mayor Rahm Emanuel and school officials announced Tuesday that 63 percent of high school seniors will graduate on time this year, marking CPS' highest graduation rate ever."
"EVER"? Really?!? Like going back to 1837 when the Chicago Public School system was founded? uh, I don't think so, Frances! In my Class of '66 (yep, I be 'old', LOL). 'Almost' everyone I started Freshman year with, graduated.
There were a few dropouts along the way -- Factory work paid pretty good then, and the Military was an option too for dropouts (that Vietnam War thing) -- but Class Sizes remained pretty stable, my Yearbooks prove it.
Well over 95% of us Graduated for sure from good old Kelly HS. Even Minority HSs did pretty good then, at least much MUCH better than today anyway. And we could all read and write.
So "ever" really isn't 'ever', is it Tiny Dancer?
The real question is, what is the percentage of entering freshman that actually graduate in 4, 5, or 6 years? Probably in the lower 40% range
Have the Tribune or Sun-times go to Fenger High School and ask say ten random male seniors simple 8th grade questions and I bet they answer less than 5% of them right. The public schools are not allowed to retain a kid more than once so they pass them even if they cant read or write.
Seniors
This is a true tale from CPS the names have been omitted to hide the guilty.During the first week in May two years ago my friend got a new student in her Sophomore geometry class.The kid was a senior who flunked one semester of geometry in their sophomore year and never made up the credit.
My friend was called to a meeting where they were asked to provide " Extra Credit" to the young lamb so they could graduate on time.My friend refused to participate in this fraud.The next day the kid is transferred to another geometry class with a sap for a teacher and the kid did graduate.
Things like this are occurring all over CPS.Nobody seemed to care that the kid didn't know shit about geometry.
I can't remember exactly where I saw it or what the rate was.
BUT, the rate of high school graduates requiring remedial math and English courses before entering their freshman year in college was astounding.
So the other 140+ yrs of Chicago public education did not exist. Be interesting to see what the faith based ( catholic etc) graduation rate is.
5/29/2013 12:40:00 AM
To be fair, this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. private schools can kick kids out, CPS can't. CPS can kick kids out of a specific neighborhood school, but they have to send those kids to an alternative school, so the kids still in the CPS system
Welcome Graduates!
We need people to clean toilets, flip the burgers, and keep an eye on the fries in the hot oil.
wow! now I don't feel soooo bad about my property tax bill.how about a tax exemption for not having kids in school? and how about asking the''parents'' with kids in school to pitch in something? the freebie wagon gets bigger and bigger
Yeah. Sure.
I wouldn't believe any of these lies. The CPS most likely lowered the standards to make it easier to graduate. Sort of like getting an award just for showing up enough. Pathetic.
New math Chicago style.
Remember figures lie and liars figure.
Wouldn't the gradeeeatun rate be based on kids that entered CPS as freshmen, then allowing for moving out of the district or death (well that solves that), then gradeeeate 4 years later?
...So the other 140+ yrs of Chicago public education did not exist. Be interesting to see what the faith based ( catholic etc) graduation rate is.
5/29/2013 12:40:00 AM
Since 1999!
Rham is nothing but B.S.
Why is Rahm the embarassed one, Karen Lewis is the teacher and the incompetent teacher at that. Many schools do not have school supplies because the teaches and administrators steal them. One school ordered thousands of dollars of supplies and found that they ordered the wrong supplies, so they threw them away, thousands of dollars of supplies. They said the tape was for a different more expensive tape holder, so instead of ordering one or two of the expensive tape holders, they threw thousands of dollars of tape in the garbage. One of the local news media station was tipped off to it. Is Karen Lewis that stupid, that she is crowing how the graduation rate is low and she is the teacher?
"In other news. Bear Shits in Woods"
5/29/2013 12:21:00 AM
UPDATE:
And snatched up a crying, squirming rabbit and wiped his ass with it. We take you live to the scene...
a school district's graduation rate is an indicator of improvement, then Chicago Public Schools is improving...........
Which newspaper had this grammatical error.
Chicago Public Schools ARE improving
5/29/2013 12:25:00 AM
Nope. You're wrong.
CPS, as an entity, is singular. Chicago Public Schools, capitalized, is singular. Therefore, CPS IS improving.
Chicago public schools, as a group (no capitalization) would refer to multiple items/schools. Therefore, Chicago public schools ARE improving.
CPS, as an entity, is singular. Chicago Public Schools, capitalized, is singular. Therefore, CPS IS improving.
Chicago public schools, as a group (no capitalization) would refer to multiple items/schools. Therefore, Chicago public schools ARE improving.
5/29/2013 03:39:00 PM
a rotting turnip by any name, would still be a rotting turnip.
Nobody seemed to care that the kid didn't know shit about geometry.
5/29/2013 08:54:00 AM
why should anyone else care, the kid obviously didn't.
Does a bear shit in the woods?...
Not any more, the bear was kilt by a CPS drop out just as he squatted.
Wow! 63% is something to be proud of? According to my math, that's 37% that are dropping out and will be living off the proverbial government tit the rest of their lives.
Here's how this benefits Rahm: half the 63% (about 32%) go onto graduate college and/or get jobs that they can support themselves with and move to the suburbs where they can improve their family situation. The other half (about 31%) work shitty jobs and have too many expenses to keep up with and too many taxes to pay, so they have to stay in the neighborhood so their kids can go to the same school and get the same shitty education, half of which will fall victim to the lure of gang life and never graduate themselves. The 37% that never graduated is in and out of prison, never has a job, procreates like there's no tomorrow, and gets government money, phones, and everything else there is, and lives in Chicago forever. Thus keeping the democratic voting machine in tact.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why is Rahm the embarassed one, Karen Lewis is the teacher and the incompetent teacher at that. Many schools do not have school supplies because the teaches and administrators steal them. One school ordered thousands of dollars of supplies and found that they ordered the wrong supplies, so they threw them away, thousands of dollars of supplies. They said the tape was for a different more expensive tape holder, so instead of ordering one or two of the expensive tape holders, they threw thousands of dollars of tape in the garbage. One of the local news media station was tipped off to it. Is Karen Lewis that stupid, that she is crowing how the graduation rate is low and she is the teacher?
5/29/2013 02:58:00 PM
Step away from the crack pipe, please.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
A friend of mine, who is a former CPS principle, told me he would get phone calls from CPS headquarters wanting him to magically pass 8th graders he had failed in order to move them on to HS and keep the graduation rate up.
Quantity not Quality.
It's all about the numbers.
Keep drinking the kool-ade fools.
5/29/2013 05:35:00 AM
Your buddy was a principal. Remember; the principal is your pal.
TODAY'S QUOTE from Rahm (at the recognition ceremony):
"For the first time, we have a full police force, at full strength, to cover the full city."
Seriously.
Right after Rahm and McNut tout their statistics and success at the recognition luncheon the bottom falls out - 3 killed and some dozen shot within a few hours. Every time these assholes open their bragging mouths chalkie shuts them up.
Think about this while you have to pay $10K-$12K to send your kid to catholic high school or $5K-$8K for grade school.....
- There are 41,000 CPS teachers
- 42%-48% of them live outside Chicago due to be grandfathered with the old residency policy (Hired before November 20, 1996) or work in 'special need basis subject areas" (one area is P 'frggin' E).
- The avg. CPS teacher salary is $72K/yr which is $18K more than the avg. Chicagoans' salary while the CPS teachers work 1/3 less calendar days.
- 42% X $72K = #1.239B in CPS teacher salaries going to those livng outside Chicago.
- 48% X $72K = $1.416B
****Even if 1/2 of 42% or 48% live outside Chicago, we're still talking about $600M-$700M in CPS teachers being used on some city's economy outside Chicago.
****Think about this when you're paying your city taxes and private school tuitions while CPS teachers are hooting and hollering that Tiny Dancer has to go, then they drive home to Glenview, Skokie, Wilmette, Schaumburg, etc.
BTW: How are CPS teachers going to vote Tiny Dancer out if nearly 1/2 of them live in the suburbs, WI, or IN and the wards where schools were closed hvae chronically poor voter turnout?
Both Rahm and Garry truly embarrassed themselves at the ceremony yesterday. We sat at a table next to an alderman who just shook his head when they were touting their numbers. When McStats compared the numbers to last year, the alderman said aloud "and compared to the year before that?"
I am selling the whole northside ! Any takers call Rham at City Hall ! My take on this is ! If we shrink the size of the city we will have more police coverage or maybe less police and look we saved money. Rham 101
TODAY'S QUOTE from Rahm (at the recognition ceremony):
"For the first time, we have a full police force, at full strength, to cover the full city."
Seriously
He's right. They wrote the vacancies out of the budget, so technically we are at full strength counting the 400 or more recruits in the academy
So it's 63%. And that's with the "no child left behind" curriculum.
Great, just great.
Every time these assholes open their bragging mouths chalkie shuts them up.
5/29/2013 11:13:00 PM
hey, i can't help it if they're blabbermouths.
Chalkie
Both Rahm and Garry truly embarrassed themselves at the ceremony yesterday. We sat at a table next to an alderman who just shook his head when they were touting their numbers. When McStats compared the numbers to last year, the alderman said aloud "and compared to the year before that?"
Listening to an alderman, thats smart, the same guys that pass the budget with less police
Whats his point about less homicides in 2011. McCarthy was Supt in Chicago for most of 2011, so you are saying he did a good job in 2011.
The number of police and who the supt is have nothing to do with homicides. In 2011 we were down police, McCarthy was Supt and homicides where down, 2012 down police McCarthy supt, homicides , up and this year homicides down and guess what we have less police and McCarthy is supt
These fools kill each other, most are killed by an acquaintance and you are only fooling yourself if you think a few more police of a new supt is going to change that.
How many homicides occur in a residence or private establishment where police have no control
Anonymous Anonymous said...
TODAY'S QUOTE from Rahm (at the recognition ceremony):
"For the first time, we have a full police force, at full strength, to cover the full city."
Seriously
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He's right. They wrote the vacancies out of the budget, so technically we are at full strength counting the 400 or more recruits in the academy
5/30/2013 11:33:00 AM
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Full strength doesn't mean ADEQUATE strength, or coverage.
To : BTW: How are CPS teachers going to vote Tiny Dancer out if nearly 1/2 of them live in the suburbs, WI, or IN and the wards where schools were closed hvae chronically poor voter turnout?
5/30/2013 06:23:00 AM
Where are you getting these numbers? Rahm and co.? You were not bitching years ago and these little darlings teachers deal with are the same ones that you lock up and give you overtime for court. Sorry when you chose a career someone failed to inform you teachers get the summers off! And the special exemptions that started in 1996 were because NOBODY WANTED THE THANKLESS JOB- apparently you either so shut the fuck up and eat shit.
Signed, a teacher
It seems I hit a nerve...HO, HO
The numbers about CPS teachers living outside Chicagio are legit, call the CTU or ask your union rep (if the your rep have a clue as most school's reps don't), they'll tell you.
And, the reason why CTU will not post these numbers as it'll piss off all the city taxpayers, especially those working for the city wh HAVE to live in Chicago.
THANKLESS JOB? $72K/yr to work, I mean be at school, for 7 1/2 hours/day for 181 days a year? Sure, you get extended pay, but, you're paid for $397.79 a day, $19888.95/week, for the 181 days or you work (I mean are at school) you do.
And, high school teachers work only FIVE-50 minute periods a day have two prep periods and a lunch.
Don't get me started on all those 'resource/collaborative title' teachers(?) who sit in an office all day at CPS schools and do psedo-administrative work, like attendance, programming, discipline, student activities, etc. while getting full teacher pay and benefits and don't teach a class.
Plsu, CPS teachers get an extra $2500-$3000/year for getting a Masters degree, even if their Masters has nothing to do with the subject they're teaching in. ie.) PE teachers with Type 75 Administrative Certificates. How the hell does a Type 75 in Administration help PE classes?
Awwwww, poooor teachers are mad now after getting their asses handed to them by Rahm...wah, wah, wah...
"HEY, HEY, HO, HO, RAHM EMANUEL KICKED YOUR ASS, HA, HA!!!!!"
Signed,
Pissed Off Chicago Taxpayer
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