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Parents have warned about the risks of closing and consolidating schools for years, but officials continue with plans that jeopardize student safety.
The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.
An ideological agenda for more “school choice” seems to be driving the district’s actions rather than what’s needed on the ground.
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.
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.
Both Chicago and Kansas City carried out mass school closures in poor, black neighborhoods, but they had vastly different approaches to repurposing them.
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