Teachers At Chicago’s Largest Charter School Network Renew Push To Unionize
Teachers at Chicago’s largest charter school network are renewing their push to unionize, saying it could help change its strict discipline system.
Teachers at Chicago’s largest charter school network are renewing their push to unionize, saying it could help change its strict discipline system.
CPS CEO Forrest Claypool argued that competition fueled progress in Chicago schools.
Under Illinois’ new school funding law, charters could receive an extra $122 million — money that mostly would come from CPS’ coffers.
From dropping student enrollment to a property tax hike, the new school year serves up big challenges for the Chicago Public Schools.
Chicago Public Schools is going forward with a controversial plan to convert an elementary school on the Near South Side into a high school.
Eleven Chicago charter school networks want to add about 2,300 students over the next several years.
The district owes creditors $8.6 billion, an increase of 28 percent over what it owed at the end of last school year.
CPS CEO Forrest Claypool acknowledged that the budget is full of uncertainty and called it more of a framework than a spending plan
CPS says this includes the fewest teacher layoffs in 10 years. CPS also delayed its budget release due to the state school funding impasse.
Student enrollment in Chicago has been dropping for years but a new twist is expected this fall: declines at mostly Latino high schools.