Stanford Researcher: CPS Improving At Faster Pace Than Other Districts In Country
A leading education researcher from Stanford says Chicago Public Schools is improving at a faster clip than nearly every other school district in the country.
A leading education researcher from Stanford says Chicago Public Schools is improving at a faster clip than nearly every other school district in the country.
Less than 40 percent of Illinois students hit the state passing rate on both the SAT college entrance exam and on state elementary exams.
The Chicago school system’s overhaul of special education was hotly debated at Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting.
CPS and charter schools weren’t sharing employment information, Chicago Public Schools Inspector General says in a new report.
Chicago Public Schools is defending its overhaul of the system’s special education program. This comes after a WBEZ investigation found that Chicago scaled back special education services last year after secretly instituting new rules. Spending was also cut by about 1.5 percent.In addition, WBEZ found that CPS relied on auditors without expertise in special education to help orchestrate this work. Chicago schools CEO Forrest Claypool argues the new rules are meant to give every child with special needs the chance to succeed.Claypool joins All Things Considered host Melba Lara and discusses why his administration decided to make changes to special education in the first place.
Chicago Public Schools is defending its overhaul of the system’s special education program.
A WBEZ investigation out this week finds that an overhaul of special education in Chicago Public Schools’ resulted in budget cuts.
Schools with larger white populations spent up to $3,000 more per student than mostly black and Latino schools.
Last year, Chicago Public School overhauled its special education program—in secret, and behind closed doors, with consultants who had no special education experience. The result was a set of guidelines that limited services many special education students in CPS had come to rely on.
A secret manual created by CPS tightened access to special education, resulting in cutbacks for neediest students, a WBEZ analysis found.