Re: test misuse

["J. Woestehoff" <pureparents@PUREPARENTS.ORG>]

Our original complaint is on our web site, www.pureparents.org, at

http://www.pureparents.org/OCRletterPURE.htm
You can also see our new complaint against the Academic Preparatory
Centers on our website under What's New. OCR has begun an investigation
into that complaint as well.

The settlement agreement consists of the new policy (which has since
been revised a little and is on the CPS web site-

http://www.cps.k12.il.us/AboutCPS/Board/Board_Actions/FY01-02/augbdact082201/01-0822-PO3.pdf
and two letters, one from an OCR attorney to the CPS General Counsel
detailing "clarifications," and the official letter from OCR to Paul
Vallas. I can send anyone who wants them these two letters. They are
fairly oblique - you still have to kind of put two and two together in
order to get at what the problem was and how it was supposedly resolved.
It is also true, as George says, that CPS is not doing so well keeping
to their agreement. OCR is monitoring and we are reporting every
incident of failure.

JulieW.

bob wrote:

> Is the settlement agreement or the complaint available anywhere on the
> web?
>
>     YES. In fact, that was the core issue which led to the
>     intervention of the Office for Civil Rights, and why the Chicago
>     Public Schools had to change their promotion policy. . . . . Part
>     of the OCR agreement gave a new right to parents to ask for a
>     review of their child's entire record if they disagreed with a
>     decision to retain the student.