Chicago’s Solution to Its Failing School System: Stop Grading Schools on Performance

Chicago schools clearly aren’t getting the job done, but political leaders in the city have discovered a solution to the problem: stop grading schools.

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In 1987, U.S. Education Secretary Bill Bennett famously traveled to Chicago, where he ruffled feathers by telling a closed-room group that the Windy City’s school system was “the worst in the nation.”