Today’s wave of new, young principals is not expected to stay on the job long-term, creating a dilemma for CPS: how to create a pipeline of top-quality leaders and provide them with support to improve the lowest-performing schools.
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 Spring 2010
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 Winter 2010
Research supports the benefits of more classroom time for low-income children, especially when the time is used wisely. But Chicago has one of the shortest school days and years in the country. Now, leaders are looking to Washington to help extend the school day. |
 Fall 2009
Chicago’s alternative schools for dropouts face myriad challenges and are barely making a dent in the problem. Advocates are eyeing federal stimulus funds to give schools more resources, and alternative charters are in the works. But CPS has yet to develop a strategy. |
 May/June 2009
In Chicago, elementary schools and high schools are suspending and expelling students at alarming rates and African American male students are bearing the brunt of these punishments. |
 March/April 2009
State-funded preschool providers are being asked this year to craft strategies for finding and enrolling hard-to-reach youngsters—children whose family or life circumstances put them at the highest risk of academic failure. Serving the hard-to-reach is front and center on the state’s preschool agenda. |
 January/February 2009
Career education has floundered in Chicago's public high schools, sending only a trickle of students into a pipeline for thousands of jobs that don't require college. The district has a new strategy to increase the flow. |
 November/December 2008
At the heart of Renaissance 2010 is the belief that families and students should have a range of good educational options in their communities. But the neediest neighborhoods are still lagging behind, and a Catalyst analysis finds that a surprising number of black students are fleeing one low-performing school only to land at another one. The district’s free-for-all system for applying to schools makes it harder for families to make good choices. |
 September, 2008
A national taskforce says that building better relationships between schools and communities is a must to raise achievement in the lowest-performing schools. Principal Kurt Jones of Libby Elementary knows it will take the best efforts of the community and the school staff to turn around the failing school. His mantra: “I cannot do it alone.” |
July, 2008
Freshman Connection |
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June, 2008
Turnaround hiring and new performance policy |
 May, 2008
More children of color are moving to the suburbs, and No Child Left Behind is forcing school districts to confront an achievement gap with white students. |
 April, 2008
Social and emotional learning has taken a back seat to raising test scores in CPS. But kids say such learning is needed, and the district seems poised to put it on the front burner. |
