REPORT: Shocking percentage of Chicago public school teachers keep their kids out of public schools

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From Breitbart: Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System (CPS), a study finds.

Even the current leader of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Stacy Davis Gates, sends her son to a private school, according to the Chicago-based Illinois Policy Institute.

According to federal data reviewed by the think tank, about 31 percent of Chicago’s public-school teachers send their kids to a private school to keep them out of the CPS.

The data was culled from the 2018-2022 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample, compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Policy Institute noted.

Illinois Policy Institute suggested this indicates a failing public school system, and then revealed just how bad it really is:

What does it mean for a city if 3-in-10 of its public school teachers choose to pay for private school rather than send their child to a public school like where they teach? It could mean these children need something different from the public school model. It could also mean teachers in the system know firsthand the school system is failing its students, and they want better for their own children.

The stats show why so many of Chicago’s public school teachers have put their children in private schools: just 1-in-4 Chicago Public Schools students in third through eighth grade could read at grade level in 2023; by 11th grade even fewer students could meet grade-level reading standards.

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