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Three in ten Chicago Public School teachers decline to enroll their children into the schools in which they are teaching.

JUST UNDER ONE-THIRD.  Thirty-one percent.  Three in ten.

This is according to the Illinois Policy Institute.

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.

I guess the Chicago Public School teachers are lucky to earn enough so that their kids don’t have to attend their ridiculously over-funded and under-performing schools.

According to Chalkbeat, the average Chicago teacher pay is a whopping $92,500 annually. That is about six thousand dollars higher than the state average of $86,148 a year, GovSalaies reports.

Yet, the Chicago schools are some of the worst performing in the state. As Illinois Policy Institute noted, more than 21,000 of the city’s 323,00 students don’t have basic competence in math, science, and reading at their grade level.

Indeed, in February, it was reported that 55 of the city’s schools have zero students proficient in math and reading.

As a reminder, the Chicago Teachers Union called a strike to keep students out of school.  Considering the facts, it might not have been a bad thing.