Perhaps the top priority at Wednesday’s school board meeting is the expected transfer of responsibility for investigating sexual abuse allegations from the Chicago Public Schools Law Department to the CPS Office of the Inspector General. As WBEZ reported, CPS Inspector General Nicholas Schuler requested this authority earlier in June…
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A Tale of Two Cities: How Race and Poverty Shape Educational Outcomes and the Need for Reform
In recent weeks Chicago Unheard has posted two open letters. The letters reflect two very different perspectives and two different experiences in Chicago’s education system. While both of the letters come from people within the same Chicago Public School District, it seems that they come from two different worlds. In one of these worlds, middle-class families (mostly white) endeavor to…
Chicago Public Schools considers 21 additional charter schools
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago Board of Education is set to consider as many as 21 proposals for new charter schools. As you’ll see in the article, the rhetoric is already heating up. But, the state has no budget and no vision for correcting its decades-long failure to adequately fund schools. Pension debt is expanding at the rate…
In Spite of Change CPS is Still Failing Special Education Students in Englewood
Last week Chicago Public Schools announced that they were reversing their decision to cut Special Education positions at about 120 schools. The Board of Education realized that somebody on staff made a mistake. They made a recommendation based on errant and incomplete information that ultimately would have hurt untold numbers of students with special needs. While some folks will take…