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| Charter operators took over DuSable High School in Bronzeville. |
Now that two charter schools, Betty Shabazz Leadership Academy at DuSable and Mirta Ramirez Computer Science High School, run by ASPIRA, are on
Byrd-Bennett's [s]hit list for poor performance, watch the charter operators scream "unfair" and ask local pols to intervene. I agree, it is unfair that the survival of any school is based mainly on student test scores. Those scores correlate much more closely with poverty than anything going on inside the classroom.
But they should have thought of that before they became cheerleaders for the closing of neighborhood schools for the same reason before taking their public funds and resources moving into the facilities that they once
