Even as CPS opens more new schools, children with special needs have a tougher time finding options. Placements in private therapeutic schools are scarce, and some charters are reluctant to enroll them.
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Janet Knupp, founding president and CEO of the Chicago Public Education Fund, has joined a Florida-based provider of special education services as the company’s CEO. Knupp will move to Tampa, FL, to join Progressus Therapy, which employs nearly 600 speech, language and occupational therapists who work with 120 school district and community clients across the nation. Early in her career, Knupp was a special education teacher. A national search for her successor is heading into its final phase.
Cornelia Grumman, founding executive director of the First Five Years Fund, is stepping down to become, in her words, “a professional mom” to her two young sons.
Two members of the Illinois State Board of Education, Vinni M. Hall and Lanita J. Koster, both of Chicago, will serve on a study group of the National Association of State Boards of Education that will examine ways to expand the use of technology in K-12 education.
Going bye bye to Track E
Speaking of Going, I heard that Track E is going the way of the Dinosaurs? Can anyone verify this?
I heard that too?? No
I heard that too?? No confirmation...I thought Track E was the miracle??? of miracles like free breakfast...oh yeah...its 90 min ow??? !!!
track E
Yes and no. There will be one calendar for all schools next year, I believe. I do think CPS would like to move the whole District to Track E but knows that is a bridge too far this year. In the end, there will be a slightly shortened summer and maybe a one week intersession like Track E for all schools. The hope is to shrink the summer even more in 2013 and add more intersession time. Agrarian school calendar is definitely on the hit list in the long run.
10 more days added to the school calendar and
don't forget that. Track E is costs--bus transportation and parents who just don't get their kids to school until after Labor Day.
What will they do with all the parents who take their children out to mexico over winter break? Will there still be 3 weeks? Keep buses and kids off the roads in winter (less crime too) and get them to school longer in summer?
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