CPS “reforms” increased achievement gap
The Consortium on Chicago School Research has foundthat Chicago school leaders’ boasts of “dramatic” improvements in our schools over the past 20 years were greatly exaggerated.
In fact, CCSR says, “(A) number of dramatic system-wide initiatives were enacted. But instead of bringing dramatic changes in student achievement, district-wide changes were incremental—when they occurred at all.”
CCSR also found that the achievement gap between white and African-American students has actually widened
