I read the article, son. The first paragraph is your copy and paste with the rest an interview of where she came from and what were her plans.
Once again...
Show us the grade level of reading and math the students are in the eighth grade and when they graduate.
What I did see is this: "The city's schools currently boast an all-time high graduation rate of 77.3 percent". Isn't the National average around 85 percent?
As you know, no one has any confidence in numbers put out by Chicago.
I go by the more practical measure. The Catholic Church is shutting down their indoctrination camps in Chicago because you can get just as good of an education for "Free" at a Public School now.
For those playing along at home, my family are all kind of nutty Catholics... 20 years ago, my sister whined that the Catholic Schools were downplaying the Dogma because so many of their students were non-Cathoics trying to get away from the Public Schools. One kid was even - GASP- a Muslim.
Recently, she whined that because the Public Schools are so good now, few people are putting their kids in Catholic school. And now they don't have any money...boo hoo, boo hoo, boo fucking hoo...
The Catholic School we went to... Two of their three school buildings are no longer being used for teaching. Awww... what a pity.