CPS Racial Disparity Grew Under Daley
Thursday dumped on the idea of a Chicago Public Schools “miracle’’ under Mayor Daley and pushed for an elected — rather than appointed — school board to move city schools forward.
The disparities between black and white students, and between Latino and white students, have only grown larger under Daley, creating a “two-tier” public education system, according to the analysis by Pauline Lipman and Eric “Rico” [Gutstein].
Daley-appointed school leaders created “world class,” high-achieving, selective-enrollment public high schools but they are three times whiter and three times less poor than the system as a whole and only serve a small slice of kids, the study said.
Meanwhile, African American and Latino students have “disproportionately experienced a string of punitive and destabilizing policies,” including “drilling’’ for standardized tests, being forced to repeat a grade, school closures and high teacher turnover, Lipman said.
Chicago high school graduation and dropout rates under mayoral control have barely improved. The gap between the rates for African Americans and whites, and between Latinos and whites, has widened.
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