Photo: Chicagoist.com Friday’s Chicago Critical Mass bike ride in support of keeping all Chicago public schools open.
Did you watch the game? ‘‘Grueling,’’ Hinrich said in summing up the Bulls’ Game 4 victory at the United Center. ‘‘It was just one of those games that everyone is going to be talking about for a while.’’
One year moratorium on virtual charters.
Family wealth is still the greatest predictor of school success.
Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Alderman’s sister gets a key post in CPS.
The evidence mounts that the education reformers are hurting students and are motivated by self-interest.
K-12 Inc. charters under investigation in Florida.
Pension thieves tag team. Our pensions are under attack from crooked loan sharks. No. I don’t just mean legislators in Springfield.
Why is George W not on trial for war crimes?
Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd Ward) whose ward has the most magnet and selective enrollment, says that residents long for neighborhood schools. In the gentrifying West and South Loop communities he represents, residents have repeatedly clAld. Bob Fioretti (2nd Ward) whose ward has the most magnet and selective enrollment schools, says that residents long for neighborhood schools. In the gentrifying West and South Loop communities he represents, residents have repeatedly clamored for schools that they could count on for their children.
Yet, even as Fioretti has been successful in bringing more school options into his communities, the neighborhoods still don’t have a neighborhood school to lure in new residents with the promise of a good public education for their children.
“It is CPS’ custom and practice not to fund neighborhood schools to the degree it is necessary,” Fioretti says.
Despite the clamor for good neighborhood schools, some of these schools have found it difficult to attract new students. Alison Beaulieu, a teacher at Dett Elementary on the Near West Side, recalls that Dett has taken in students from Suder and Dodge. But after the Henry Horner public housing projects were demolished and a nearby homeless shelter was relocated, Dett’s enrollment fell and is now just 204.
Beaulieu notes that despite new housing and more diversity in the neighborhood, the school is still all-black and low-income. Dett was given the highest rating by CPS until this year, when it fell to Level 2.
As to why the school has yet to attract a more diverse student body, Beaulieu is blunt. “Honestly, I think it is a race thing.” Sarah Karp, Catalyst.
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Bush isn’t on trial because Obama knows that then he’d be vulnerable.