Achieving equity through mediocrity: Chicago moves to eliminate “high-achieving” school programs

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Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Board of Education are following the lead of other major cities and eliminating gifted school programs in the name of achieving greater racial and social “equity.” Eleven “high-achieving selective-enrollment schools” will be eliminated, according to Chicago Board of Education CEO Pedro Martinez, to reduce “stratification and inequity.” As we have previously discussed, major cities with failing public education programs are erasing performance gaps in their schools by decapitating the top performers rather than elevating the performance overall. Other schools have also eliminated or lowered proficiency standards to achieve higher passage rates.According to the Daily Mail, the Board will vote today on the Mayor’s plan with the support of the president. The Chicago Tribune blasted Johnson in an editorial for reneging on a campaign promise not to abolish the selective schools.President Jianan Shi has portrayed gifted programs as just adding stress by allowing some students to achieve higher levels of education. Shi declared “the goal is […] to change (the) current competition model so that students are not pitted against one another, schools are not pitted against one another.”Some of these targeted schools are among the nation’s top performers, including Walter Payton College Prep (ranked 10th), Northside College Prep (ranked 37th), and Jones College Prep (ranked 60th). However, these schools only highlight the failure of the system overall.One can imagine how thrilled countries like China must be as we decapitate our educational system to bring down both standards and schools to a low median.

As public schools continue to produce abysmal scores, particularly for minority students, board and union officials have called for lowering or suspending proficiency standards or declared meritocracy to be a form of “white supremacy.” Gifted and talented programs are being eliminated in the name of “equity.”

Chicago is literally telling families of highly competitive students to leave public education or reduce their expectations. For those who can afford it, they must now look to private or religious schools. Most cannot afford such choices and the state has long been hostile to vouchers. Indeed, the state (which has long been dominated by the far-left teachers union) recently became the first state to rollback on vouchers as other states are expanding such programs.

As a proud Chicago native, it is hard to watch what is happening in the city under Johnson and this city council. I still hope that sanity will take hold in the city before they do irreversible damage, but this education plan hastens the decline of one of America’s greatest cities.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/12/...-to-eliminate-high-achieving-school-programs/
 
Sounds like another stupid talking point without context. They are likely redistributing funds to increase ability of more students to get an education. The goal of public education is to educate all, not just a few
 
Is the source quoting the Chicago Tribune quoting the UK Daily Mail about an education program in Chicago?
I'm easily confused.

But it could be worse. Places like Wharton could be churning out fraudsters and wannabe dictators.
 
Is the source quoting the Chicago Tribune quoting the UK Daily Mail about an education program in Chicago?
I'm easily confused.

But it could be worse. Places like Wharton could be churning out fraudsters and wannabe dictators.
Sounds like the author may have benefited from a good education and instead decided to start a blog
 
No doubt in a month or two we'll learn there's a perfectly innocuous explanation for the whole thing - but by then it won't matter, will it?
 
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