Heads likely to roll at under-performing high schools

Heads likely to roll at under-performing high schools

The Chicago Board of Education decided last week on intervention in six high schools because of poor performance by their students.

"We found that re-engineering and reconstitution failed," board President Gery Chico said. "All the schools are on probation with less than 20 percent of their students reading at grade level."

The six schools are Bowen, Collins, South Shore, DuSable, Orr and Juarez high schools, where, CPS officials said, students are constantly falling behind.

In August, a management team of educational experts in curriculum, finance, technology and school administration will begin on-site …