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Article: Dropout crisis at CPS demands quick action
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 27, 2008
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Nearly half of all Chicago Public Schools students drop out before graduation.
That's so bad -- so stunning -- it's worth repeating: By June 2005, when CPS' seniors were set to graduate, 44 percent of the class was missing, CPS data released Monday shows. And that's an average, masking the worst record. That belongs to black males: 57 percent dropped out.
We've long known that CPS high schools were falling short, that too many kids were dropping out.
Here's what is different now: CPS is taking authoritative data, shouting it from the rooftops, and most important, ramping up efforts to improve. The solutions announced Monday won't solve the problem, far from it. But they're a crucial first ...