Take 5: LSC elections, college attainment, Rauner’s cuts, neighborhood...
LSC elections: This year’s barely noted local school council elections had a new twist: A handful of community groups worked to recruit and promote LSC candidates with a shared “education justice”...
View ArticleTake 5: Contract talks, school arrests, questions on lead in CPS water, money...
Arbitration for contract talks. Chicago Public Schools officials made a pitch this week to enter “final and binding interest arbitration” with the union to head off a strike, an approach taken with...
View ArticleTake 5: Contingency plans for strike, affording college, big loans, lead tests
Strike plans. Chicago Public Schools officials say they would cancel final exams but still hold elementary and high school graduation events using nonunion staff if teachers go on strike in May. The...
View ArticleTake 5: No May strike, migrant children, achievement gap analysis, summer jobs
No strike, for now. As expected, the Chicago Teachers Union isn’t planning to go on strike before the end of the school year and instead will continue to push for new revenue for the cash-strapped...
View ArticleTake 5: LaRaviere update, charter money questions, New York high schools, New...
LaRaviere’s “dereliction of duty.” Troy LaRaviere, the outspoken critic of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s education policies and a candidate for the top job in the Chicago Principals & Administrators...
View ArticleTake 5: Marching against gentrification, Pell grants for dual enrollment,...
Marching the 606 against gentrification. On the same day CPS told principals to plan for 39-percent cuts to their budgets, hundreds of activists, families, educators and aldermen marched down the 606...
View ArticleTake 5: Closing alternative schools, lead testing, more summer jobs, budget news
Closing Prologue schools. CPS officials are moving to close two struggling alternative schools run by the non-profit Prologue, Inc. Carole Collins-Ayanlaja, interim superintendent of Prologue, told...
View ArticleTake 5: Persistent racial disparities, good news on grad rates, Hyman...
New data released this week by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights show that black and Latino students continue to face higher rates of suspension, a lack of access to advanced...
View ArticleTake 5: Court sides with charters, lead in water, fewer kids in summer...
Court sides with charters. A Cook County judge has decided that the three charters Chicago Public Schools moved to close can remain open while the district fights a legal battle in court. The state’s...
View ArticleTake 5: Taking to the streets, LSCs speak out, reform in Mexico
Protests for more funding. On Wednesday, the first day of summer vacation, hundreds of Chicago Teachers Union members, students, parents and other community activists took to the streets to call on...
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