There are approximately 410,000 students in the 655 schools in the CPS system. That’s approximately 18.8% of all Illinois public school students. 84.9% of these students are from low-income families; 14.4% of these students are limited-English-proficient; 91.3%...
Education has been my life’s work, starting on the South Side of Chicago where I grew up along with my sister and brother, as a part of my mother’s inner city after-school tutoring program, Sue Duncan’s Children’s Center, where I learned to, as she says...
Over the last two months parents, parent groups such as Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) and the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (C.O.R.E.) — the “reform” caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union have organized protests over announced...