“Since 2022, nearly 50,000 migrants have been bused to Chicago from the Texas border. While not all of these new arrivals have opted to stay in Chicago, many who have chosen to make the city their new home have been resettled in predominantly Black neighborhoods on the South and West Sides,” reports WGN News. “Several Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers who work in these communities” revealed that “they were told by school administrators to give migrant students passing grades last school year.”
The teachers who revealed this to WGN are assigned to elementary schools. The teachers speak no Spanish, while their migrant pupils spoke no English, making it almost impossible to communicate with them. Because their elementary schools were situated in mostly “Black neighborhoods, they offered no English as a Second Language (ESL) support,” WGN says. To cover up the resulting failure to educate the kids, teachers “were instructed by school administrators to give their migrant students a 70 percent in every subject and pass them on to the next grade…this was the case even if their migrant students displayed severe academic deficiencies.”
The Chicago schools CEO had claimed on WGN radio that migrant students were subject to the same academic standards as students native to Chicago. “However, once confronted with” WGN’s “reporting, a CPS spokesperson acknowledged in a statement that the district’s promotion guidelines are ‘modified to serve the specialized needs of English Language Learners.’”
Breaking campaign promises, Chicago’s left-wing mayor, Brandon Johnson, has sought to get rid of high-achieving high-schools in the name of “equity.”
Violent crime is rising in Chicago, as the city wastes money on soft-on-crime policies rather than investing in more and better policing.
Chicago’s mayor has proposed reparations to reduce Chicago’s high crime rate, but reparations would do nothing to cut crime, and would have more negative than positive impacts.
Chicago’s mayor has proposed left-wing policies that would shrink the quantity and quality of housing in the city.
