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Some CPS schools giving parents progress reports — on themselves

Walsh Elementary among first to show how well, or poorly, students being kept on track for college

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By Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune reporter

November 3, 2011

It was report card pickup day at Walsh Elementary School on Wednesday, and Principal Krish Mohip was feeling a little exposed.

In addition to their children's report cards, Walsh parents were among the first in Chicago Public Schools to receive a progress report on the school itself, showing precisely how well, and in many cases how poorly, that school is keeping students on track for college.

At Walsh, a modern brick building in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, parents learned that