Admissions Data: the key, missing data to exposing charters
Finally, finally, finally…
The front door clear advantage awarded to charter schools by the Deformists in charge is city wide admissions. [The ejector seat advantage allows them to “counsel” ahem force out low performers.] Charter schools can selectively admit from a disadvantaged demographic - not freely admit and act as a dictionary-definition neighborhood school. They aren’t like a magnet school quite yet. I like the term “privilege school” like “your attendance here isn’t a right it is a privilege.”
Here is an Alderman in Chicago who used a political moment - where UNO needed his support to obtain a zoning change - to extract a commitment that UNO would act more like a neighborhood school and less like a privilege school. Now let’s see how it plays out. I suspect The Friends of Juan (Rangel) was the determining admissions factor…not neighborhood address. Joravsky won’t let this story go I’m sure.
Well, the last year hasn’t been so glorious for UNO. In February, Sun-Times reporter Dan Mihalopoulos began breaking stories showing that