on Chicago Teachers Union President Marilyn Stewary saying that disruptive students need a special school just for them.

on the local school district that says it is not going to close more school buildings.

on 65 elementary schools in the state that have test scores put them in the bottom 5 percent in academic performance, but cannot get extra help from the state education department due to the amount of improvement they made over the past year.

on big problems that local school board has with restoring public faith with the public.

with a brand new look out at weather thew achievement gap is closing at all.

What they found is that for 74% of the instances they looked at showed the achievement gap narrowing. In 23% of the instances they looked at it showed a widning of the achievement gap.

When the achievement gap narrow for the most part it was the minority groups making bigger gains than the higher performing sub groups.

with a report just looking at end of course exams for Algebra I and Algebra II. 13 states were looked at.

When it came to Algebra I the grades looked at were 7-12 with some unidentified students. Scored showed students had best advanced level scores in the 7-8th grade levels. Same happened with proficient levels as well. Basic levels flat lined in grades 10-12. Below Basic scores went up with every single grade level topping off at 81.3% at grade 12, but only 214 students were tested at that level.

When it came to Algebra II scores most of the students were not prepared at all for college level work. From grade 8 on down the percentage of students that wound up with a prepared scored dropped at every single grade level. Same thing happened with welll prepared score as well.