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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.
As Rahm Emanuel courts flashy projects amid a slew of scandals, it seems the mayor is more accountable to big-money donors than to neighborhood constituents.
National Teachers Academy parents argue that Chicago’s plan is discriminatory towards the top-ranked South Loop school’s mostly low-income and African-American students.
Although Chicago Public Schools promised a better education for thousands displaced by 2013’s closures, those students saw long-term negative effects, a sweeping report shows.
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.
As Chicago Public Schools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013’s mass closures.
Many families fleeing the poorest pockets of the city are ending up in cash-strapped school systems in the suburbs and northwest Indiana.
The former educator could bring a different perspective to pressing issues of privatization, special education funding and school closings.
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.