In these tight economic times,

CPS continues to waste more than

$100,000,000 a year

on a program that doesn't work,

and harms children.

Tuesday, PURE sent CPS CEO Ron Huberman a proposal for CPS to stop flunking children and redirect the annual $100-200 million costs to programs that work. The CPS policy is a proven failure, and there are better ways to spend that money including lower class size, early intervention (like the highly successful Child Parent Centers CPS has closed), and an improved, proactive assessment system using true multiple measures, not the multiple barriers in the current promotion policy.

The CPS policy also disproportionately affects African-American and Latino children, which violates their civil rights.

We are confident that Mr. Huberman, who is known to make his decisions based on data and research, will toss out the 13-year-old policy as recommended five years ago by Chicago researchers.

Here's the graphic cover, the executive summary, the full proposal, and a list of references to research that supports our recommendations.