CPS Attendance Soars

Oh wait, non-attendance. Sorry.

• Some Chicago Public School students are absent from the classroom for 95 days. That's more than half the school year. CBS 2 [...] has been crunching those unbelievable numbers, and they are staggering.
  
  CBS 2 looked into neighborhood schools. It seems Marshall High on Chicago's West Side posted some of the worst attendance numbers. In 2008, the average days absent per student totaled 95. It was 75 at Harper, 72 at Robeson and 71 at Clemente...

So how many of these brilliant scholars are being counted on the first day of school so Daley Inc. can get all sorts of Title I money and then the kids are never seen or heard from again...that is, until they're gunned down. Suddenly, they're "another Chicago Public School casualty" that is used to smack the Police around for not doing enough to "save this poor child."

Once again, we're going to point to the community and the lack of family structure as the beginnings of this failure. The schools merely have bad material to work with, no matter how many pretty charts Huberman comes up with. He did the same thing with the CPD and it had the exact same effect on crime that it's having on the CPS - zero.