Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

On his way to Washington to become Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan had to step over the bodies Chicago school children he was sworn to educate and keep safe.
With incompetence as the hallmark of the Obama Administration, it’s no surprise the Chicago public school system left behind by Arne Duncan is a dangerous and decided failure producing few success stories and questionable academic progress.
In a field of tax cheats, fakers and pretenders, Arne Duncan may be the worst of Obama’s gang of Chicago incompetents because of his failure to provide a safe environment for the children under his care.
The Chicago Tribune reports 28 children have been killed in Chicago public schools already this school year. This is larger than last year’s total in spite of there being three months left in the school year.
As an educator Duncan is a breathtaking failure. Under his “leadership” Chicago’s public schools failed to meet federal No Child Left Behind standard five years in a row. His Special Education District failed to adequately educate 80% of its students.

Cooked books?
Almost 60% of Duncan’s students’ ACT college entrance exam scores averaged less than 17 points or half of the 36 point minimum required for consideration for college entry. The average Chicago public high school student misses seven weeks of school and only ten percent pass Illinois State standardized academic tests.
Given the graduation rate of 52% (national 72%) it looks like Chef Duncan cooked his books. Otherwise how can more than half of his students graduate but not be educated enough to come near a satisfactory ACT score?
Arne Duncan left Chicago a violent dangerous and underperforming school system. His main qualification is a jump shot but not much more. He is another of Obama’s big name empty suit appointees.
How can Duncan who couldn’t run a single school system now run the nation’s schools? He can’t but that never means anything to Obama. He fills his slots with hacks and phonies who have no business in the jobs he gives them. The only solid appointments he has made have been holdovers from the Bush Administration.
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