Case of the missing juniors
Rich East High School in Chicago has seen state test scores for its 11th-graders improve by a stunning 37 percent during the last two years -- a gain so impressive that regional education officials asked the Park Forest school to host a seminar to help others emulate its success.There's only one problem: Rich East did not give the Prairie State Achievement Exam to about 40 percent of its juniors last school year. And it excluded the ones furthest behind academically. It's not the only school to keep the most underachieving students off the books, according to a ChicagoTribune analysis of new state Report Card test data. Stephanie Banchero, Darnell Little and Tara Malone, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2, 2009
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