re: Chicago public schools blow millions on travel while students can't read at grade level

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CPS OIG's report also reveals school system officials took lavish trips to Las Vegas, Egypt, Finland and South Africa.

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Literally no reason for this. None.

The parents and administrators deserve each other.

I just hope they stay contained in their current geographical area.

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said admin staff, no classroom staff. Go look at your local school admin costs. Probably have a bunch making 6 figures and do nothing for students.

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Depends on the district. Some places admin are pretty overworked, at the school level anyway. At the district level there is no doubt a ton of waste of taxpayer dollars with worthless admin positions or ones that barely do their job. Most of the excess is related to federal regulations, NCLB, and IEP related nonsense though.

The biggest waste of money comes from instructional growth coach/teacher type positions. They provide absolutely nothing except for annoying teachers during PDs.

Obviously the situation here in Chicago is silly corruption on the next level, as to be expected with Chicago.

It's Trump’s fault

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Go look at your local school admin costs.

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I'm well aware that there are 6 VPs at my kids junior high with 2k students. Classroom "required" inflation of labor costs is not something to ignore. Mainstreaming disruptive kids whose parents have never controlled them in any meaningful way has costs.

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As of the 2023-2024 school year, it had 1,864 students. 22.2% of students were considered at risk of dropping out of school. 12.9% of students were enrolled in bilingual and English language learning programs.

As of the 2023-2024 school year, an average teacher's salary was $67,064, which is $4,590 more than the state average. On average, teachers had 9.7 years of experience

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22% at risk dropout rate (I don't know how that's calculated). Average home value of places zoned to that school is about $500k. Tell me again how good parents are. 13% in ESL? Recognize reality. There is too much of both. Our ISD president does make over $400k a year, which is absurd, but it's outstripped by the hundreds of $60k hires we have to make to accommodate kids that can't self soothe.

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Absolutely no reason for conferences in Finland when you’re teaching 8 year olds to read Dr. Seuss.

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Oh, the places [democrat-controlled money] will go!

They probably used the same travel agent as the CoA in BR.

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I'm well aware that there are 6 VPs at my kids junior high with 2k students.

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In a decade there will be more than 6 and probably less total number of students.

The challenging issue with public educational bureaucracy creep is they continually manufacture administrative and internal credential creep.

Bogus shite to be sure; we are not getting better at educating children in many public school systems than we did in the past.

All this being said, I know there are educators and educational administrators out there who are caring and effective professionals.

Generally speaking though the entire discipline of education has unfortunately been lefticized.

Clearly they just need to invest more in their schools

Newsweek: Chicago School Scores Drop After Doubling Spending

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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has almost doubled its spending per student over the past decade, but test scores are dropping.

The district is spending $29,028 per student in the current school year—a 97 percent increase since 2012, according to a recent analysis by Illinois Policy.

The analysis, using data from the Illinois State Board of Education about the 2022-23 school year, found proficiency in math has dropped by 78 percent since then, while proficiency in reading has declined by 63 percent.

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