The data show CPS is running a racist system
[Remarks to the June 23, 2010 Chicago Board of Education meeting]. My name is Carol Caref, and I’m a mathematics teacher at Chicago Vocational Career Academy. Because this administration likes to emphasize data, I’m going to share some, from the Illinois State Board of Education.
Since 2002, the number of African American teachers in CPS has dropped by almost 2,100 teachers.
Chicago Vocational teacher Carol Caref (left) waits with Jennifer Johnson (Lincoln Park HS) to speak to the June 23, 2010 Board of Education meeting. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.In 2002, the percentage of African American teachers was close to 40 percent, but by 2009, the percentage had dropped to 30 percent.
Here is some more data. In general, about 10 percent of students attend selective enrollment high schools. However, 30 percent of White students attend them. Hmmm. On the other hand, 72 percent of all African American students attend segregated low-performing schools, schools that have the greatest chance of being turned around.
Speaking of turnarounds, an EEOC complaint filed by CORE shows a huge decrease in the number of African American teachers working in every single turnaround school. An analysis of the data shows that statistically, this could not have occurred by chance.
The data-driven conclusion is that CPS runs a racist school system, which provides separate and unequal education for over 70 percent of the system’s African American students. Additionally, it is decimating the system’s African American teaching force. Nothing in the proposals being voted on at this meeting indicates that this trend will be reversed.
Comments:
By: Retired Principal
Black Teachers Are Fired!
Thanks Carol, this has been going on for a long time! Carol, you forgot to mention that CPS was firing black male principals too, for a long time!
By: Pedro
Hispanic teachers have also been fired in big numbers
Every latino teachers I talk to, from different schools, are also getting hurt, picked on, and getting terminated. They should do a study on Hispanic teacher firings!
By: John Whitfield
Daring to be Empathetic
The last time that Ms. Caref brought up these facts, that is, when the former Board of Education president was still president;
after exhibiting some empathy for what the teacher had said, in the following days he was suddenly no longer the Board of Education president.
He had stated right at the board meeting, that he found it interesting, the teacher being a white person speaking up on these matters.
Not Michael Scott, but the gentleman before they brought Mr. Scott back. And by the way, what is the latest on Michael Scott being mysteriously found dead in the Chicago River near Merchandise Mart? Was it suicide?