Status of Black Students in Illinois Universities

Of the 12 public universities in Illinois, three have reached parity( % of Black Students as in the Illinois population-14.5%)population; three have Black graduation rates above 50% in six years; One has Black tenured faculty above 8% and none has more than 3% Black faculty as a proportion to Black students.

Is this enough to make legislators, administrators, educators, and interested lay people wonder where all the money to support "so called minority initiatives" is going and what good it's doing!!

More on the Status in the next blog

The Way to Segregate Chicago Style

As far as I can tell after trying to go through the report cards Chicago Public Schools submitted to the Illinois State Board of Education, there are at this moment (January 4, at 3:15 P.M.) 21 full four year Charter high schools.  Only one has White students it reports.  Only two have more than half of their 11th graders meeting or exceeding state reading standards.  None that reported has students who score at or above the state average ACT composite (20.6).  None reports the actual teacher qualifications, but use the statistics reported by the District (42.4% White; 19.5% Black; 14.2 % Hispanic & 3.3% Asian), with average teacher salaries of $71,000, and average administrators' salaries of $111,000.  You can't blame the corporations for wanting in on some of these dollars.