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Selective Enrollment Scandal At CPS?
By: Alexander Russo / July 22, 2009
Is it the UofI clout list scandal, part 2? I don't know. But CPS announced today an investigation into the District's selective enrollment practices, based on unspecified information about policies not being followed.
Click below for the press release. Feel free to add anything you know, or think this is likely to be about.
Is it the UofI clout list scandal, part 2? I don't know. But CPS announced today an investigation into the District's selective enrollment practices, based on unspecified information about policies not being followed. Click below for the press release. Feel free to add anything you know, or think this is likely to be about.
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO THE DISTRICT'S ENROLLMENT PRACTICES
Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman announced today that an investigation into the District's selective enrollment practices has been launched.
Based on information that has recently come to the attention of the CEO's office, that existing policies may not haven been followed, Huberman has directed the Office of the Inspector General launch an investigation into the District's selective enrollment process.
Huberman has also directed an auditing firm be retained to review the current process and report whether additional controls are recommended.
"We are carefully reviewing the existing selective enrollment policies and guidelines, and we will be implementing additional controls in the near future."
Huberman is expected to announce a new Data Integrity Unit later this week that will improve CPS' controls of both electronic and paper files.
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The CPS is a horrible system, 17% of “Chicago’s†high school students get a decent education and the rest are dumped into neighborhood schools which are the among the worst in Illinois. There are Students from everywhere in the “city†going to schools no where even close to where they Live, look at the suburban schools you go to school in the proximal area of your residence! Then there are the “blind lottery†schools, if you win a lottery your child gets an education, how about having a lottery for paying you property taxes! The Principals discretion process is another program that tens of thousands of students and parents applied for and were denied, I guess it’s not that you were originally told that your child will not get an education in Chicago; The Principal has to break your heart again and rub some salt into your wounds.
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In some ways, this entire discussion is the result of a generation (or two) that's been mesmerized by a numbers game. Schools and children can't be lined up in a bizarre pennant race, like the American League, and then ranked and sorted at the end of the season. It's impossible, despite this recurrence of one part of the American Nightmare (a kind of Eugenics modeling, very Chicago in its origins, that has metasticized nationally, with a lot of media foreplay).
From what I'm reading, there are parents who never go further than the "data sets" (on the one hand) and some kind of built-in pricing chart (on the other). What is going to matter most when a child goes to school is not presented in any of those statistics. At least, please, do the on-the-ground sniff test at the school you're talking about.
It's easy, but it can't be done from a keyboard or via the World Wide Web. You actually have to stop, look, listen, and evaluate with your own eyes, ears, nose and senses. Be outside the school watching the children leave and the end of a typical school day. Not some special day -- a typical one. Ask yourself if this is what you want for your child. One of the better ways to decide is a violence test. If the language of the children and the actions of most of them is not play, but violence, no matter what the "data" say this is a bad choice.
After a few tries outside and quietly, there are other things to do. Every real public school still has a local school council. Those 11 or 12 people are your neighbors (except, maybe, the principal and the teacher reps). Every LSC meeting is public, covered by the Open Meetings Act. It's the imperfection of real democracy at the level we've been practicing it in the USA since the public school was invented (against the opposition of the plutocracy, most dramatically in the Confederacy, but just about everywhere, since an educated working class -- black, white, other -- is a threat to the lies that sustain entrenched wealth, privilege, and injustice) and it's right down the street.
I though a year ago when the "global economy" and all the illusions that went with it (remember the "Dow 30,000"?) that some otherwise smart people would realize the limitations of those mesmerizing numbers that they had absorbed since birth, and those social Darwinian assumptions they had lived by.
Reading this and much else (and having just rewound the "Race to the Top" nonsense that the Chicago Boys are going to use to tyrannize the 50 states and territories), I guess not. Sadly, those rubrics of the mind are now going to cost us all. Arne Duncan, and the Chicago Boys, are going to make Barack Obama a one-term President. Bullying and bullies like Duncan, smarm and all, may get away with stuff for a time (look at Englewood, Collins, Austin, Calumet, Orr, and Harper high schools) based on lies and the sheer arrogance of power.
But every person who is bullied and who doesn't die (and there are real casualties in the class wars, usually among the poorest and weakest) remembers and is ready when it comes time to fight again for justice.
Free your mind and your ass will follow. As long as you start and finish your school search for your own children at the bottom of a spreadsheet or at a "School Report Card" you're still a slave to the same mindset the had you convinced that your real estate investment would appreciate forever, that your 401-K could never go down, and that the smartest people on the planet were raking in those huge bonuses at Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and AIG.
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I hear you, but sorry, Meeks is not that smart. Look at how the County is a mess and he lives here. And all the cuts made by the state leg to education recently. He has no power and he has no smarts--he should have gone to hawthorne last year.
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Maybe at the start of school we'll see Chicago students and parents protesting at the doors of Hawthorne instead of New Trier like last year. Could you imagine?!
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the transparency is never going to happen--the majority white at Hawthorne will stay that way and they like it that way.
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Currently the entire CPS system consists of 8.9% white students and 84.3% low-income families. Hawthorne has 43.3% white and 17.1% low-income. Hmmm? This is a school that accepts students citywide through random lottery. There is no testing involved. I would be curious to find out how many (what percent) of their applicants are non-white and/or low-income and what the "random" acceptance rates are for white, non-low-income? How about some transparency?
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Hawthorn's demographics are as diverse or more diverse than Poe/Skinner/Ogden/Murray which all have majority minority populations(GreatSchools.com)....aprox. 10% of CPS's population is white. Despite the conspiricacy theories,why is this population so low when the city is a third white?
As the economy continues to soften,I'm quite sure we'll see an increase in this specific number at CPS schools. Moreover,an increase in the number of AA males looking at teaching as a career would surely rectify that particularr statistical anomaly.
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From the pictures, it looks like none of the staff or teachers is African-American. Odd, in Chicago, no?
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Why do I have so many kids from Homewood/Crete/CountryClub Hills/South Holland at my school?
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Now, I'm wondering just like you. After I read your comment I went to the cps.edu site and to the school's website. They sure have a wonderful PTA that raised a little over $200,000 for the school this past school year. I looked at the gallery pics and the school including classrooms certainly is impressive! It makes you just go hmmm...how do they get the majority of wealthy white students?
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I've often wondered how magnet schools such as Hawthorne which "accept students citywide through random lottery" seem to "randomly" select so many wealthy, white kids.
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Is it possible to have smaller general classrooms (20 students max) and tracking as needed?
Tracking Works
Differentiation simply does not work in middle school and beyond. By the time students enter middle school, the curriculum gets more rigorous. For example, at our school in northwest side of Chicago, we teach pre-algebra in the 7th and algebra in the 8th. With kids of differing abilities, it becomes very difficult to teach to meet every kids' needs.
Here is a study that clearly shows how tracking improves learning. However, I have never seen a study that suggests differentiation works!
http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/Can_Tracking_Improve_Learning....
We've gone this before
This clout story comes up with CPS in long cycles. Then there's a crack down. Changes are made. Then everything goes back to the sos. Check out Chicago Magazine from December 1988! The names have changed, but the article, "The Lottery" by Marj Halperin, reads like deja vu. Gifts to schools, fake addresses, fake siblings or ethnicity, coached test scores, principal picks, political, monetary and media clout, etc. Sound familiar? The process of selective enrollment has to be done completely fair and in the open. I'm not counting on it though.
We've gone this before
This clout story comes up with CPS in long cycles. Then there's a crack down. Changes are made. Then everything goes back to the sos. Check out Chicago Magazine from December 1988! The names have changed, but the article, "The Lottery" by Marj Halperin, reads like deja vu. Gifts to schools, fake addresses, fake siblings or ethnicity, coached test scores, principal picks, political, monetary and media clout, etc. Sound familiar? The process of selective enrollment has to be done completely fair and in the open. I'm not counting on it though.
Differentiated Learning
Effective teachers differentiate perpetually. Although the concept has its merits,I'm not quite sure if the powers that be are ready to differentiate instructional methods for the material covered in the GMAT/MCAT or even the material needed to pass your drivers license. A rising tide lifts all boats,students push themselves in relation to their peers.If a culture of mediocrity is pervasive in the classroom, among the students, they'll respond in kind. One of the reasons we have clout issues to begin with stems from the fact that educationaly astute parents are aware of the power of assimilation.
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The reality is that there are for the most part many many dedicated teachers and staff who love their students and their jobs
yet there are also people like in any job who wait for the bell-remember Fred Flintstone! Consider the culture in the general neighborhood schools and the neighborhood high schools.
All of us parents, teachers,staff and community are trying to literally to educate our young people-let's make a concerted effort
to realize we are doing the same thing-getting through and having to throw the ball in each other's court playing the blame game.Whats wrong with this picture!What about the teacher who has a classroom of different levels,thirty two kids in a classroom designed for 25 .What would you do to survive as there are really only about three to four months of direct instruction as the first five weeks of school is acclimation to new environment,after the 15th of November to the 15th of January is lost holiday time. Everyone is distracted!February to April is spent on teaching to the test and April to JUNE 1st is wrap up time. Time energy and effort can be our friend or our enemy.
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yes, in theory, they are supposed to. The reality may be quite different.
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Aren't general class teachers supposed to do differentiated learning to accommodate students at the high, middle and lower levels of ability and achievement? Help me on this one.
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It really angers me when people like you question the reason people send their children to selective enrollment schools instead of the neighborhood school. I have two elementary school age childre. My oldest goes to the neigborhood school and the youngest attends a selective enrollment. I wanted the youngest to attend the neighborhood school with his brother. I asked the principal could he receive instruction a grade level ahead and she refused despite me showing his percentiles on the tests. I remember looking at the Kindergartn work hanging in the classroom in March and thinking my son did this type of work in preschool. He would be bored out of his mind. Why should a parent sacrifice their child to a school who WILL NOT accomodate children who are acdemically advanced? It would be so convenient for him to be in the same school with his brother but sending him to a school that would bore him for the sake of improving a school is not my job or concern. Making sure my children aree in excellent school that challenge them is my job as a parent. All children can not work a grade level or two grade level ahead so this is the reason selective enrollment schools were created. I have made great choices for both of my sons who are both excellent students in their own school environments.
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If Mayor Daley's boys and girls at CPS (the Board; Arne Duncan; Michael Scott) had not spent the past decade sabotaging the general high schools (and in many cases the community elementary schools) so Daley could push privatization (mostly through charters), this discussion would not be taking place.
Every neighborhood high school in Chicago is still a decent place to get an education. For talented students who wish to take advanced courses, however, the sabotage of those schools has resulted in the narrowest of curricula. Whereas my eldest son (Whitney Young, Class of 2007) could take (and past) eleven Advanced Placement classes (from English and history to both calculuses) at Whitney Young, CPS simply doesn't make available those options for students in the general high schools.
The high schools instead are forced into the ludicrous silliness of scheduling "AP" and "regular" students into the same classes at the same times, because the principals are forced to work within the procrustian bed of "tight staffing." There is no realistic programming for, say, the dozen kids at Schurz who might be ready for calculus (at least AB), unless there are other squshes. The result is that the general high schools are disrupted and unwelcoming as places to get the courses a child could be ready to take.
At Whitney Young, my eldest (who also designed the new Substance website at www.substancenews.net) had experienced veteran teachers in every one of his classes, from Richard Bukowski (calculus) and (I'm sorry for forgetting her name) in statistics, to Johnson and others in the English. He also took psychology and the two of the histories. When he arrived at the University of California Berkeley in September 2007, he had passed (fours and fives) eleven AP exams, which enabled him to move ahead more quickly in the most challenging program there (the College of Engineering).
Getting your kid into the "gifted" track in CPS should not be a life or death academic issue. If the Duncan administration (mostly because of the mayor's pressure in "Renaissance 2010") had not been carrying out the sabotage of the general high schools and the community elementary schools, this situation would not be so dire at this point in history. But if you want to look at the single reason most responsible for the destruction of the communities around the city, you can still do a Walkabout through the Office of New Schools, or simply attend a meeting of the Chicago City Council and watch the chairman in action.
The Chicago Boys around Arne Duncan have left town, but their legacy -- not simply in this corruption investigation -- will live on in the stench for years and years. The Huberman administration is like those guys you see with the shovels following the animals in a big parade. And the mess those animals made of Chicago's general high schools is one of the most tragic for the city of any in our history.
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As a cps teacher and a parent of a childin a selective enrollment child in high school-two years down the pike why do we have to revisit this. I live between Lincoln Park and Old Town and hate the idea of clout and do not fit in in the present prevalent adult mentality of entitlement. When my child was in eighth grade,I
throughly researched every possible resource,parochial public and private.As a person who has worked in many varied educational settings,I believe in PUBLIC EDUCATION. What about Brown vs
Board of ED-1954 AND Corey H. AND Piaget and integration,accomodation and assimilation
My child and I were allowed to chose but I do know that demographics played into the decision.I am hopeful that some slap happy clerk will not make a decision based specifically on data.
I have worked my backside off as an educator and a parent.
Why not interview the kids-not baby goats but students,in so far as
their own educational process is concerned. I am a reading teacher.
Why do we have The Red Eye as a newspaper when Chicago had four newspapers at one time!
We all need to continue to work harder to see that civilization as we
know it is not flushed down the toilet with the millenial generation!
I know wew as a family did not lie cheat or steal to obtain a spot.
My child is happy in school as much as a teenager can be as a social being but still working to obtain his grades.As a family we are not only lucky but fortunate!
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There probably isn't anything too scandalous going on concerning selective enrollment high schools. I'm sure there are a few non-residents and a few kids who got in with some clout and a little hanky panky with the principal's discretion but I don't there is anything major.
This seems diversionary to me. By focusing on this interesting and juicy topic which probably won't pan out to much, what are we NOT focusing on?
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There is ample validity of criticism challenging both the authenticity of the so-called "blind lottery" as well as the integrity of selective enrollment processes employed by individual schools in cooperation with the CPS central office. The tampering of data has more than a few objectives.
For schools currently not meeting AYP under NCLB it is helpful to restrict enrollment to higher achieving students, excluding lower achieving students from the surrounding community.
It is also helpful to restrict enrollment of students with disabilities. The state mandates that all CPS schools maintain a “proportional enrollment†(e.g., percentage of students with disabilities/general student population) that comports with guidelines set forth in the Corey H. Settlement Agreement
CPS recently submitted proportionality waiver applications to the IL State Board of Ed. These applications, signed off on by Barbara Eason Watkins and Kathleen Gibbons (CPS general counsel) contain data that is incomplete, false or misrepresented.
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so we've got a few scenarios going here
-- clout admissions to selective schools
-- faked addresses
-- clout PLUS faked addresses?
but no specific allegations, really -- nothing like the michael jordan's son story (which didn't pan out, btw)
anyone with knowledge of a specific allegation of clout, or a named complaint of being bypassed?
-- alexander
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[i]Gifted education is another form of special education, so it's no surprise that CPS doesn't have a clue how to get it right.[/i]
It should come as no surprise that clout, money, and other influences play key roles in admittance to Chicago's magnets and selective schools. I can't imagine anyone is actually shocked by this.
But...
Magnet schools and selective enrollment schools do not really qualify as gifted education. Whether one considers gifted the top 1% of CPS students - or the top 3%, or the top 10% - only a very few schools in Chicago require anything remotely approaching [i]special education services[/i] for magnet and selective schools.
And I'm surprised to hear George, typically a champion of the underdog and staunch supporter of equality and equity, go to bat for these selective enrollment schools. After all, aren't selective processes part of the rationale in opposition to charters? How might the atmosphere in neighborhood schools change if these elite students simply enrolled down the street from where they live?
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I do not understand. So parents purposely start their children a year later so they can be better students or atheletes...please tell me to be better students because boys tend mature later than girls.
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Red shirting in elementary school is usually done with boys. The parent and principal make the decision to start kindergarten a year later. It is used at Jackson.
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Speaking of Jordan, the Whitney Young principal is the worst violator. Check the statistical data for discretionary admittance.
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Redshirt is a term used in American college athletics that refers to delaying or suspending an athlete's participation in order to lengthen his or her period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, a number derived from the four years of academic classes that are required to obtain a bachelor's degree at an American college or university. However, a student athlete may opt to redshirt for one year which allows the athlete to spread those four years of eligibility over five years. In a redshirt year, a student athlete may attend classes at the college or university and practice with an athletic team, but he or she may not compete. Using this mechanism, a student athlete has up to five academic years to use the four years of eligibility, thus creating the phenomenon of the "fifth-year senior."
The term is used as a verb, noun, and adjective. For example, a coach may choose to redshirt a player who is then referred to as a redshirt freshman or simply a redshirt.
The term is also used in American professional football. In this instance, a red jersey is worn by a player—usually the team's starting quarterback—during practice and signifies that the player is not to be tackled or hit during practice to prevent injury to a critical member of the team.
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What does red shirted mean?
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The problem is not just with the so-called gifted programs but at any of the schools where someone outside of the neighborhood would have to apply. As a teacher, I have told parents to go to the high schools and tell the principal what they will do for the school if their child is admitted as a way to give the child an edge. I also remember, 15 years ago when my child was applying to kindergarten, listening to other parents tell me what they had to do (i.e. promise to the principal) to be sure their child was accepted to a certain school (even though there was a lottery for acceptance). At high demand schools, parents do all sorts of things to get their child accepted. It seems like way more than 5% of those kids are accepted.
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South Loop Elementary, Skinner and Andrew Jackson are so political. It is a toxic environment when it comes to the lottery and selective enrollment.
Jackson prefers children to be red shirted. . I think they are going to have some very tall boys in 8th grade, they might even be growing mustaches!
South Loop Regional is all about siblings and connections!
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Isn't the bigger problem here the fact that alderman, elected officials, people with clout felt/feel they have the right to be given priority over others? I blame those asking for special treatment and putting political pressure on the system to make it happen.
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"Perhaps I am naive, but I don't see this anywhere near on the same scale as the U of I "scandal". We are talking about high school here, not Law School." - GS
High school placement in Chicago is a big deal. Where you go to high school can change your life and entire future. I recall in the documentary Lost Boys of Sudan, the boy who attended the well-resources suburban high school had the world open up to him, while his buddy, who stayed behind without getting into a "good" high school just withered. Like that.
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/07/cps-investigates-admissions-a...
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"How might the atmosphere in neighborhood schools change if these elite students simply enrolled down the street from where they live?"
Well they certainly would change but that's not going to happen because the selective enrollment high schools are to anchor the middle class to the city. George's son went to Young.
i'm more upset about non-chicago residents attending selective enrollment schools than with a little bit of cronyism. I heard that parent dropping their cars off at northside prep do have have city stickers.
the cut off scores are easy enough to figure out. why have a quantitative process if you are even going to stick with it?
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This is the first I've heard of this Data Integrity Unit - I'll be fascinated to hear the details. Some of the data systems in CPS are so horribly inaccurate it's not even funny. It's about time someone was actually made accountable for ensuring that data is correct.
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Gifted education is another form of special education, so it's no surprise that CPS doesn't have a clue how to get it right.
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I've been a supporter of gifted education since the first time I saw Michael Jordan launch himself into the air. Any society needs a way to identify and encourage young people who have both an aptitude and an interest (i.e., willingness to work very very hard) for certain activities, be they academic, artistic, physical, or spiritual. The trick is to figure out how to make the identifications and provide for "late bloomers" and other delayed entrants.
For example, children who arrive in Chicago from areas with enormous military and social disruption (often, terribly traumatized themselves) might, after a year or two of decent food, safe environment, and consistent caring in education suddenly be able to show "gifts" that had to be masked when survival was the main agenda item.
These children, when they arrive at certain schools after living, say, in war torn places like Englewood — and other areas that the Daley administration has surrendered to corruption, gangs, hypocrisy, and relentless violence — will need some time before they can feel safe enough to reveal their gifts.
It's a big mistake to believe, however, that all children can and should be ready and happy to be tackling algebra by, say, fifth grade. It just doesn't work that way, any more than all teenagers are ready to slam dunk by ninth grade. I certainly wasn't, then or afterwards. But I'm glad Michael Jordan was encouraged to develop his gifts, and hope that we will continue to expand those opportunities.
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Well...Actually my husband wrote a letter to Huberman about 2 months ago naming names -- specific schools and instances that we saw where rules were not being followed. We heard back that one of the schools was being looked at -- nothing official, just a comment made from someone not so high up so I don't know whether this is true. We also received a form letter from central office denying that this had happened (as if they knew). Things got very frosty at one of the schools since it seems that our name was made known to them. We did not do this to stir up trouble -- but we were upset about how qualified students were being denied admission. I wish that more parents would write letters to the top with specifics with what they know -- if they're not already doing so. Maybe things will change. Given the nastiness that can be generated by a local kingdom (school principal), it may be difficult for some parents to come forward. Huberman seems to want to run a clean ship. Why don't you write a letter to Mr. H detailing what you know.
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To the Chicago Parent-
If you have specific credible information, forward it to the CPS Inspector General's office, which is doing the investigation.
I may be missing something here, but I personally don't have a problem with a small percentage of discretionary admissions, as long as the vast majority of admissions are in accordance with the documented guidelines. There are always a few students who may do very well in a selective enrollment school, but perhaps don't test well, or have special needs. It is not unreasonable to have some wiggle room to admit students who can be successful, bot don't meet the specific requirements. Of course, this hinges on the idea that the majority of the admissions are handled appropriately.
Perhaps I am naive, but I don't see this anywhere near on the same scale as the U of I "scandal". We are talking about high school here, not Law School.
The residency requirement not being enforced is a separate issue, and, I feel, a problem with the school that allows this, rather than an indictment of the whole selective enrollment process. On the other hand, I don't have a child who was qualified to attend a selective enrollment school, but was denied.
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Clout calls are/were common in the office of high schools around admissions time. I even heard there was a designated person in the office of high schools to handle these calls from Alderman, etc. I like this person so would rather not name him. This info is 2 years old but I doubt it has changed too much recently.
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To Chicago Parent
You might as well say where it's happening, blurt it out because you know it's not a secret. People talk and I'm sure that news is already out there. Just like I blurted out Blaine. People think that school is the best, but it's toxic with the current principal. Until she goes...it's sick and corrupt!!! Someone needs to find the corruption before that Vaccarezza leaves, nail her to the wall!
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There are also MANY suburban kids that go to Selective Enrollment schools like Northside by using suspicious addresses starting with Rahm Emanuel's niece that lived in Evanston and graduated from Northside a few years ago. Wonder how that happened??? No one checks addresses any more. Mailings are RETURNED to MANY high performing schools due to bad addresses and no one follows up! The excuses for not following up are many. But, the children of Chicago taxpayers are frozen out!?!??!
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Dear ok but,
This isn't something that I heard about but something that I know from first hand experience. Are you in a position to fix this or just someone who wants the juicy details? I'm a bit reluctant to post something that can damage several schools' reputations if there is little chance that the process will be fixed.
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yo betcha--another dirty little secret with CPS. And that is how the LSC and the alderman and the community likes it!
Some are more equal than others.
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Add the ag high school there. too many strange things happening with clout.
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you did not answer WHERE. You write how, but it is where that is more important here than anywhere else.
Otherwise, write a note with that information--bu keeping it 'secret' by not naming the schools is only gossip.