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Chicago School Board Targets School Choice To Fight “racism”
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<blockquote data-quote="$lave" data-source="post: 1888" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>With the support of Chicago’s left-wing teacher’s union, the Chicago School Board has voted in favor of a resolution that many believe will lead to dismantling the district’s “selective choice” program. This is where students can apply to a selective choice school over their local neighborhood school.</strong> </p><p></p><p>Chicago has eleven selective choice High Schools. Nine schools perform above average, and five are at the absolute top.</p><p></p><p><strong>The controversy is all about race</strong>. The district is only 11% White and 4% Asian. However, there is a massive gap between the academic performance of Whites/Asians vs Blacks/Latinos. <strong>The </strong><a href="https://www.cpsboe.org/content/documents/23-1214-rs3.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>school board says that the advanced academic programs harm “Black and Latinx” students</strong></a><strong> who are supposedly victims of “structural racism.” </strong>The board and the teacher’s union are angry that the Blacks and Latinos make up 82%+ of the district but less than half of the top five schools. The resolution calls for a greater focus on “prioritizing communities most impacted by past and ongoing racial and economic inequity.”</p><p></p><p>The three-and-a-quarter page resolution uses the word “racism” twice and the word “racial” five times. The words “equity” and “inequity” are used fourteen times. They allege that these top-performing majority White/Asian schools are taking away resources from Blacks and Latinos. The data shows this is a wildly false narrative. <strong>These schools actually spend less per pupil than most of the rest of the district.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>[URL unfurl="true"]https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/chicago-school-board-targets-school-choice-to-fight-racism/[/URL]</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="$lave, post: 1888, member: 1"] [B]With the support of Chicago’s left-wing teacher’s union, the Chicago School Board has voted in favor of a resolution that many believe will lead to dismantling the district’s “selective choice” program. This is where students can apply to a selective choice school over their local neighborhood school.[/B] Chicago has eleven selective choice High Schools. Nine schools perform above average, and five are at the absolute top. [B]The controversy is all about race[/B]. The district is only 11% White and 4% Asian. However, there is a massive gap between the academic performance of Whites/Asians vs Blacks/Latinos. [B]The [/B][URL='https://www.cpsboe.org/content/documents/23-1214-rs3.pdf'][B]school board says that the advanced academic programs harm “Black and Latinx” students[/B][/URL][B] who are supposedly victims of “structural racism.” [/B]The board and the teacher’s union are angry that the Blacks and Latinos make up 82%+ of the district but less than half of the top five schools. The resolution calls for a greater focus on “prioritizing communities most impacted by past and ongoing racial and economic inequity.” The three-and-a-quarter page resolution uses the word “racism” twice and the word “racial” five times. The words “equity” and “inequity” are used fourteen times. They allege that these top-performing majority White/Asian schools are taking away resources from Blacks and Latinos. The data shows this is a wildly false narrative. [B]These schools actually spend less per pupil than most of the rest of the district. [URL unfurl="true"]https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/chicago-school-board-targets-school-choice-to-fight-racism/[/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]
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