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Top Flunkers: Who are they?
Seventy-four public educators--teachers and administrators--failed 10 or more tests between July 1988 and April 2001. Includes educators who were employed in an Illinois public school at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year.
- A special education teacher in Chicago failed the most tests, flunking 24 of 25 tests taken--including 11 of the 12 Basic Skills tests attempted.
- More than 17 percent (13) of the top flunkers were bilingual education teachers. Bilingual education teachers account for only 1.4 percent of all educators in Illinois.
- More than 85 percent (63) of the top flunkers were in Chicago. Chicago accounts for only 18 percent of educators in Illinois.
- As a group, the 74 top flunkers took a total of 1,056 tests--and failed a total of 957. That's an average of nearly 13 failures per person.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times analysis of Illinois State Board of Education data.
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