Jersey Jazzman: Noble Charter Update

Jersey Jazzman: Noble Charter Update:

Noble Charter Update

by Duke

Earlier this week, I took a look at the exercise in union-bashing propaganda that Juan Williams and Kyle Olson put out, disguised as a documentary about Noble Street Charter Network schools in Chicago. It turns out Noble is serving a substantially different student population than the rest of the CPS public high schools, which may well account for its higher test scores. There's also evidence that Noble has very high attrition rates.

Two days before my post, Noble had come under some harsh criticism from Congressman Danny Davis:

I found that in 2009:

• Noble Street suspended 51 percent of its students out of school at least once – almost 3 times the 18 percent rate of Chicago Public Schools (CPS). 

• Although Noble Street has a lower percentage of African American students than CPS