Emanuel touts U. of C. study to show CPS gains

Mayor Rahm Emanuel used promising results from a University of Chicago study looking at the success of high school freshmen to pronounce that Chicago had turned a corner in education achievement.

“We are a city now on the move in the sense of achieving what I think every child deserves, a high quality education that prepares them for the rest of their lives,” Emanuel said, speaking at the release of a new study by the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research...