18 schools, 10,000 students targeted by CPS interventions
Adding to the 10 turnarounds disclosed yesterday, CPS today announced that it will close 2 schools and consolidate, phase out, or otherwise intervene in 6 others.
There will be a critical meeting of the Chicago Educational Facilties Task Force TOMORROW Dec 1 at 10 am downtown at the Bilandic Building – 160 N. La Salle RM C-600 (6TH Floor) – Committee Hearing Room. The CPS proposals will be the topic of discussion of this legislative task force.
CTU’s response:
Chicago Teachers Union blasts new list of school closures and the parceling out of elementary students to other schools
Lewis: “CPS has 0% success rate in improving city high schools”
CHICAGO – Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
“Wildly uneven results” in Chicago charters
Despite its blind editorial support for charter schools, the Chicago Tribunereported today that “New data suggests many charter schools in Chicago are performing no better than traditional neighborhood schools, and some are doing worse.”
What the next Trib news flash? Dog bites man?
The twist to this not-so-new-news is that a change in the charter school law has forced charter networks to report state test data for every “campus.” Remember, Chicago encouraged its first charter schools to multiply under a single charter in order to circumvent the state’s charter cap. That practice has been outlawed and the charter cap raised.
Prior to this year, networks could hide results from lower-performing schools within the network’s aggregate