CPS Announces 5 New Choice Elementary Schools
Chicago Public School officials announced Monday that they’re creating five new choice elementary schools open to anyone across the city.
Chicago Public School officials announced Monday that they’re creating five new choice elementary schools open to anyone across the city.
The proposed school actions include closing four under-enrolled schools and promoting school integration in two changing neighborhoods.
Chicago Public Schools is moving forward with several controversial plans, including one that would shutter four South Side high schools.
The Chicago Board of Education will vote on the proposed school next week. It’s slated to open in an area with many under-enrolled schools.
A proposal to put a new charter school in a building with a severely under-enrolled school is generating controversy.
A moratorium on school closings lifts in 2018. Since the mass closings of 2013, student enrollment has plummeted.
UChicago study finds charter students on average outperform similar students at traditional CPS schools, though not at all charters.
The principal of the school inside Cook County jail returns to work today after a fraud allegation led to her banishment.
The principal of the school inside Cook County jail returns to work today after a fraud allegation led to her banishment.
But the inspector general defends his findings; calls CPS’ “investigation of our investigation” unprecedented and “fraught with misstatements.”