CPR:
Attendance figures released by Chicago Public Schools may be misleading. CPS is touting a record high attendance rate for the first day of school. But they’re counting kids who’ve been in class for weeks.
The district ran a citywide back-to school campaign this year, as it has in the past. And it says over 94 percent of its students showed up to school on September 8.
But spokeswoman Monique Bond admits that count includes 80,000 students in year-round schools who’ve been in class since early August. And the attendance figure leaves out kids still trickling into the system.
Also in CPS news the Principal of Whitney Young Magnet High School
testifies in probe over clout admissions to her school:
The principal of a school that's part of a federal probe into admissions practices at the city's elite public high schools said Wednesday that she has testified before a grand jury.
Whitney Young Principal Joyce Kenner declined to provide details of her two-hour testimony last week before the federal panel.
"I have been assured that I am not the target of this investigation," Kenner told parents during a regularly scheduled meeting of Whitney Young's local school council. "And I have been assured that Whitney Young is not the center of this investigation."
Federal authorities would not comment on Wednesday night about Kenner's statements.
Both stories via CapFax
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