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PSAT for 8-30-11: Fight flunking!

PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACTION TUESDAY!

We’re still waiting to learn the results of the federal investigation into our December 2010 Office for Civil Rightsdiscrimination complaint against Chicago’s policy of flunking students based on their state test scores, and now another round of flunking is going on.

It’s likely that OCR is giving the new Brizard administration time to respond to the complaint, but meanwhile there are now thousands more children facing the first day of school with a sense of dread and failure thanks to