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Empty Schools, Empty Promises

Planned Englewood school closings throw Harper’s future into question

By Kalyn Belsha | June 13, 2017

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.

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Better support for neighborhood high schools should be part of CPS strategy, say two reports

By Kalyn Belsha | April 13, 2016

Two reports from Generation All and a Chicago Public Schools working group are calling for more support for neighborhood high schools and better long-term planning. The district plans to release an updated high school strategy by the end of the school year.

Catalyst Chicago

Online learning falls short without teacher-student interaction: study

By Melissa Sanchez | April 11, 2016

Research out of Chicago finds that fewer students passed online credit recovery courses in algebra compared to students in traditional classes.

Catalyst Chicago

Real school choice requires strong neighborhood high schools

By Beatriz Ponce de León | February 19, 2016

The current climate of unbridled school competition has diverted resources and support away from neighborhood schools, putting them on an unequal playing field and exacerbating our city’s social inequality.

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Student protests over budget cuts have deep roots

By Stephanie Choporis | November 18, 2015

“You don’t realize how much you love something until it’s kind of out of our reach,” said Jones junior Darcy Palder at a recent student rally. “And when I started realizing that we might not have those special classes that we love or those teachers who have helped us so much, I realized that we needed to do something.”

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Neighborhood high schools hit hard by more enrollment losses, funding cuts

By Kalyn Belsha | September 26, 2015

The district lost more than than 5,000 students this year, which is more than twice the projected number. Twenty-seven schools with lower-than-expected enrollment will now lose more than a half-million dollars on top of earlier budget cuts.

testing and accountability

Proposal eliminates some test scores from high school rating policy

By Melissa Sanchez | September 25, 2015

CPS is in a dispute with the testing company, ACT, over what officials say were compromised EXPLORE and PLAN tests from last year. As a result, the district wants to modify the school rating policy that takes into account those assessments — and make a slight tweak to teacher evaluations.

college going

Summer counseling aimed at getting more high school grads in college

By Kalyn Belsha | September 8, 2015

Over the last two summers, CPS has invested in helping pay for summer transition counselors, who help recent graduates navigate the complex process that often precedes enrolling in college. For some veterans, it’s a return to a strategy used in the early 2000s when resources for post-secondary work were plentiful.

Catalyst Chicago

Dyett to reopen as neighborhood arts school

By Melissa Sanchez | September 3, 2015

District officials said they’d reopen Dyett High School as an arts-themed neighborhood high school. But activists on an 18-day hunger strike aren’t ready to call it a victory.

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Baseball game

Later school start: complications with a silver lining?

By Meg Anderson | July 31, 2015

Students at the 56 high schools that will start classes later this school year foresee problems with after-school activities and jobs, but a researcher says they may learn more.

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