(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Officials from a non-profit research company gathered at Benito Juarez High School to share what they say are “dismal” results from a new report about Hispanic students within Chicago Public Schools.
"Right now, we see in the data from the state board of education is that only 12 out of every 100 kids at CPS who are Hispanic can do math at grade level, and only 17 out of every hundred can read at grade level," Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski said Wednesday.
He said parents don't know this because CPS is giving them a false sense of their kids' progress.
"The system is happy to move them along, get them out of the way, and they're failing the kids because the kids aren't prepared,” he said.
Dabrowski called for an "obsession with literacy" across the district and encouraged teachers, parents, unions, and administrators to work together to hold CPS accountable.
He says CPS is lying to parents about their kids' academic success.
Supporters like parent Robert Cruz says Latinos also need to come together.
"If we don't start looking out for each other, then who's gonna do it?"
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