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Youth and Young Adults for
Rush:
Education
- Daley claims that students are doing better in school.
But, half the students who begin school in Chicago do not graduate.
- In the 1996/1997 school year, the truancy rose to 58,130.
- Daley’s retention policy leads to more students dropping
out of school.
- Daley disbanded the Chicago Multilingual Council, a
legislatively mandated bilingual parent body.
- Daley regards non-English skills as obstacles rather than
strengths on which we can build.
- Instead of working with local school councils to improve
schools, Daley stripped the local councils of their authority.
- Estimates indicate that the Chicago City Colleges graduation
rate is less than half the national average for community colleges.
- The City Colleges budget has risen to $246.6 million, while
standard performance and enrollment have declined.
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