Public Schools

There are plenty of gripes about the public schools, but it is easy to understand why nothing gets fixed: the money keeps pouring in.   Public school administrators often cry broke despite receiving billions of dollars from federal, state, and local governments. They run out of money because so much of what they get is wasted. For […]

The numbers are jaw-dropping. In 30 Chicago public schools, not a single student can read at grade level. In total, just 20% of third- through eighth-graders in the Windy City are proficient in reading and only 15% are proficient in math.