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Progress: Fake it ’til you make it

06.02.2010 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

This is the sort of statistic that, despite devastating funding cuts at all 600 Chicago Public Schools, further overcrowding their hot classrooms with dysfunctional kids and captained by teachers on the fence between apathy and uncontrolled rage, the Chicago School Superintendent would like us to take as good news.

From the Sun-Times last week:

"Reports of serious student behavior problems have dropped 77 percent at six targeted schools—and Chicago Schools CEO Ron Huberman credited his $60 million anti-violence initiative."

Yay.

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // anti-violence, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sun-Times, Ron Huberman

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