‘The four-years-fallacy’: CPS students struggle to graduate college in under six years, UChicago study says
Just 30% of CPS graduates from the class of 2014 who immediately went on to so-called “four-year” universities graduated in four years.
Just 30% of CPS graduates from the class of 2014 who immediately went on to so-called “four-year” universities graduated in four years.
Elsa Delgado, one of about 6,300 staffers in this role, says, “We do the little things that make a big thing.“
The tool paints perhaps the most comprehensive picture to date of how kids in each community are doing in school, in finding work and financially.
CPS discourages civics tests based on rote memorization. Try a quiz using that approach — and see what schools are doing now instead.
Take our 15-point quiz on the Illinois and U.S. constitutions, based on real questions students face.
As part of a shift in civics education, CPS is moving beyond facts and dates and toward helping students experience what it is like to create change.
Lawmakers agreed on a voting map but are considering a last-minute proposal to accelerate moving to a fully elected board. Here’s a primer for you.
Divisions over the city’s elected school board remain — including disagreement over how many members should be appointed versus elected next year. The issue will likely be kicked to January when legislators return for the lame duck session.
Lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to keep alive a program that sent 9,700 students to private schools this year with taxpayer support.
Principal Tammie Ismail, like many, feels that dehumanizing rhetoric spread by U.S. politicians and media about Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs in the wake of the war in Gaza has inspired hate that’s endangering her students.