“I’ve got to tell you, what’s carrying this data is the neighborhood schools like Amundsen,” new CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said at a news conference at Amundsen High School on the North Side. “I will always applaud our amazing magnet schools and selective enrollment programs, but I’ll tell you, our neighborhood schools, when you look at the quality programming that we have, the outcomes that we are getting, I’m sorry, folks, I mean, I’ll put these schools against anybody in the country.”
CPS touts record-high graduation rate, record-low dropout rate
