New data released by the Illinois Board of Education Tuesday shows an increase in the number of Illinois schools and districts unable to meet No Child Left Behind targets.
It's unknown whether Chicago Public Schools raised dismal improvement statistics -- 58 percent of its schools failed to meet national standards last year -- as ISBE won't be releasing the 2008 State Report Card until Oct. 31.
However, an analysis of the data finds 39 percent of Illinois public school districts failing to make adequate yearly progress this year, compared with 28 percent in 2007.
Statewide, 31 percent of schools failed to meet NCLB targets on student reading and math tests, compared with 24 percent in 2007.
While per district stats have yet to be disclosed, Chicago is dissatisfied with the state's assessment.
"We're still in the process of appealing the AYP [adequate yearly progress] status of a few of our schools," spokeswoman Anitra Schulte said.
To be sure, I'm starting to question if we should be building new schools if the schools we have now aren't doing the job they're supposed to be doing in educating public school students. I would especially point out the future construction of a school for homosexual high school students. I rant on that not seeing how CPS does as far as NCLB standards.
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