Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/key-issue/education/page/2/)
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Deep cuts to higher education are pushing black, Latino and other first-generation college hopefuls out of a path to upward economic mobility, a new report shows.
The massive reshuffling of black students in Englewood and South Loop wouldn’t fly in a wealthier school district.
Developers buying shuttered Chicago schools face stiff competition for tax credits that make their repurposing plans viable.
Many bilingual programs are violating state law by failing to provide adequate services to the district’s growing share of students whose native language is not English.
Muchos programas bilingües no cumplen la ley porque ofrecen servicios inadecuados al creciente porcentaje de alumnos cuyos idiomas natales no son inglés.
The district’s record on reusing shuttered schools has residents worried that the neighborhood high school will become another empty building in a community burdened by vacancies.
Higher incomes and education levels can only take blacks so far up the social ladder, a new study on racial disparities in Chicago shows.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ agenda to further privatize education would leave even fewer good schools for low-income black and brown students.
The mayor’s prevarication on school funding and charter expansion reveals his priorities when it comes to the future stability of CPS.
Chicago is now the most heavily unionized charter school system in the nation. And for the second time in a year, charter teachers threatened to go on strike. That’s certainly not the direction Gov. Bruce Rauner and Mayor Rahm Emanuel thought they were headed a few years ago.