We took a shot at the poor performance of the Chicago schools last week in our item on how the Chicago Teachers Union can’t spell. We may have been too kind when we said the majority of students in many Chicago schools lack basic reading proficiency. In fact, as many as 24 Chicago schools had literally zero students who met basic reading proficiency standards in 2024.  Zero. Only a few of them were special ed schools.

Even in 2025 – after the state watered down standards to artificially boost scores – the overall Chicago proficiency numbers were pretty miserable:

For this, the union is demanding more pay from the “governer”?