Failing Schools in Illinois

“When I first saw that only 2 percent of third grade black kids educated in public schools could read at grade level, I didn’t think it was true. And so I quickly clicked over to the Illinois State Report Card to look at math results…amazing that only 1 percent could do math at grade level.” Ted Dabrowski, president of WirePoints.com, talks about how incredibly bad it is in Illinois, using Decatur as an example.

With thousands of your tax dollars being spent per student every year, government schools are academically failing the students who attend them. And what’s also troublesome is that the vast majority of teachers are rated proficient or excellent.