Re: Chicago's Body Count

[Julie Woestehoff <pureparents@PUREPARENTS.ORG>]

PURE has a fact sheet on retention in Chicago which includes some of this
information from 1995-1999. The total student enrollment in CPS is about
430,000..
http://www.pureparents.org/retentionnum.html

"George N. Schmidt" wrote:

> In a message dated 6/22/00 1:15:15 AM, susanharman@IGC.ORG writes:
>
> << 1. Students retained: 70,000 (at grades 3, 6, and 8).
> during what period of time? This year? Since Vallas? And out of how many
> total in Chi? That is, what are the percentages? >>
>
> This is a rough estimate of the total between June 1996 and June 2000 at
> grades three, six, and eight. The percentages vary from grade to grade and
> year to year, depending upon definitions. Is it a percentage of the total
> number of students in that grade? The total number in the system? Also note
> that the school board has a "reporting" number that is different from the
> total number at the grade level (and less, as we report in the May - June
> Substance).
>
> So, for example, in June 1999, there were 30,340 eighth graders in Chicago,
> of whom 23,189 were listed as "tested and included". The number who were
> "retained" after "failing" the six-week summer school was 2,223 (according to
> a Board of Education press release dated August 12, 1999). Thus, the number
> retained at 8th grade was about ten percent of the total number of 8th
> graders tests, or about seven percent of all eighth graders from that year.
> Eighth graders who "fail" in June and "fail" summer school are sent to the
> transition centers, where they are tested again in January, etc., etc.
>
> At the other grades (three and six), it gets even more difficult to describe
> in these terms, because we now have third and sixth graders who are one or
> two years older than their grade peers. Therefore the question begins to be
> asked "What is a third grader?"
>
> The best stab made at defining these terms was recently done by the
> Consortium on Chicago School Research, which has a Website.
>
> I hope this helps a little.
>
> George Schmidt
>
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