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'''Chicago Public Schools''', commonly abbreviated as '''CPS''' by local residents and politicians, is a large [[school district]] that manages 666 public elementary and high schools<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats%20and%20facts.aspx |title=Chicago Public Schools - Stats and Facts |accessdate=2009-06-27 |first=Chicago Public Schools |publisher=Chicago Public Schools }}</ref> in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. Chicago Public Schools is currently the [[List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment|third largest]] school district in the [[United States]], with more than 407,000 students enrolled in the school district.<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats%20and%20facts.aspx |title=Chicago Public Schools - Stats and Facts |accessdate=2009-06-27 |first=Chicago Public Schools |publisher=Chicago Public Schools }}</ref> The position of CEO of the CPS was created by Mayor [[Richard M. Daley]] after he successfully convinced the Illinois State Legislature to place CPS under the mayor's control.
'''Chicago Public Schools''', commonly abbreviated as '''CPS''' by local residents and politicians, is a large [[school district]] that manages 666 public elementary and high schools<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats%20and%20facts.aspx |title=Chicago Public Schools - Stats and Facts |accessdate=2009-06-27 |first=Chicago Public Schools |publisher=Chicago Public Schools }}</ref> in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. Chicago Public Schools is currently the [[List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment|third largest]] school district in the [[United States]], with more than 407,000 students enrolled in the school district.<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats%20and%20facts.aspx |title=Chicago Public Schools - Stats and Facts |accessdate=2009-06-27 |first=Chicago Public Schools |publisher=Chicago Public Schools }}</ref> The position of CEO of the CPS was created by Mayor [[Richard M. Daley]] after he successfully convinced the Illinois State Legislature to place CPS under the mayor's control. Most Illinois schools are governed by a locally elected School Board, who then hire a Superintendent. The Superintendent acts as CEO and hires administrators such as principals, who must be approved by the Board. Chicago Public Schools has a Board of Education whose members are appointed by the Mayor, making the entire system completely controlled by one individual, an elected politician. The last two CEO picked by Daley are not educators by background, which has been mildly controversial.


[[Ron Huberman]] is the current CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS).<ref>http://www.cps.edu/News/Press_releases/2009/Pages/01_27_2009_PR1.aspx</ref>
[[Ron Huberman]] is the current CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS).<ref>http://www.cps.edu/News/Press_releases/2009/Pages/01_27_2009_PR1.aspx</ref> The previous CEO Arni Duncan became Secretary of Education under President Obama.


==Schools==
==Schools==

Revision as of 22:15, 22 September 2009

Chicago Public Schools
MottoEducate. Inspire. Transform.
TypePublic School District
Established1837[1]
PresidentRon Huberman, Ph.D., Superintendent
Students407,955 (2008-2009)
Location
Chicago
,
Illinois
,
U.S.
CampusCity
Websitehttp://www.cps.edu

Chicago Public Schools, commonly abbreviated as CPS by local residents and politicians, is a large school district that manages 666 public elementary and high schools[2] in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Public Schools is currently the third largest school district in the United States, with more than 407,000 students enrolled in the school district.[3] The position of CEO of the CPS was created by Mayor Richard M. Daley after he successfully convinced the Illinois State Legislature to place CPS under the mayor's control. Most Illinois schools are governed by a locally elected School Board, who then hire a Superintendent. The Superintendent acts as CEO and hires administrators such as principals, who must be approved by the Board. Chicago Public Schools has a Board of Education whose members are appointed by the Mayor, making the entire system completely controlled by one individual, an elected politician. The last two CEO picked by Daley are not educators by background, which has been mildly controversial.

Ron Huberman is the current CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS).[4] The previous CEO Arni Duncan became Secretary of Education under President Obama.

Schools

Lindblom Math & Science Academy
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Clemente High School
Lincoln Park High School
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Jones College Prep High School

CPS is a vast system of primary, secondary, and disability schools confined to Chicago's city limits. This system is the second largest employer in Chicago with over 43,000 employees.[5]

Most schools in the district, being prekindergarten-8, elementary, middle, or secondary, have attendance boundaries, restricting student enrollment outside of any given residential area. A school may elect to enroll students outside their attendance boundaries if there is space, and or if it has a magnet cluster program. Full magnet schools, such as Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy, are open to student enrollment citywide, provided that applicants meet a level of high academic standards: living near a magnet school does not guarantee admission. Magnets offer a variety of academic programs with various focuses (agriculture, fine arts, international baccalaureate, Montessori, Math, Literature, and Paideia programs, among others).

The school system also contains two levels of elementary-middle school programs which make selective admission only. Regional gifted centers have an area of focus (such as math and science) and require one type of assessment; classical schools, in contrast, take a liberal arts approach focusing on all areas and require a different type of assessment. There are nine regional gifted centers: Lenart, Beasley, Beaubien, Bell, Carnegie, Edison, Keller, Pritzker, and South Loop. There are five classical schools: Decatur, McDade, Poe, Skinner North, and Skinner West.

At the secondary level, CPS operates nine selective enrollment high schools.[6] These are;

Performance

The April 21, 2006 issue of the Chicago Tribune revealed a study released by the Consortium on Chicago School Research that stated that 6 of every 100 CPS freshmen would earn a bachelor's degree by age 25. 3 in 100 black or Latino men would earn a bachelor's degree by age 25. The study tracked Chicago high school students who graduated in 1998 and 1999. 35% of CPS students who went to college earned their bachelor's degree within six years, below the national average of 64%.[2]

Chicago has a history of high dropout rates, with around half of students failing to graduate for the past 30 years. Criticism is directed at the CPS for inflating its performance figures. Through such techniques as counting students who swap schools before dropping out as transfers but not dropouts, it publishes graduation claims as high as 71%. Nonetheless, throughout the 1990s actual rates seem to have improved slightly, as true graduation estimates rose from 48% in 1991 to 54% in 2004.[7]

As announced on September 8, 2006, due to an ongoing series of campaigns and programs, including one which emphasized the importance of fathers accompanying their children to the first day of school, and parents picking up their children's report cards, first day attendance rose from a previous year high of 92% in 2005 to 92.8% for the first day of classes, Tuesday, September 5, 2006. CPS press release

See also

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Chicago Public Schools - Stats and Facts". Chicago Public Schools. Retrieved 2009-06-27. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  3. ^ "Chicago Public Schools - Stats and Facts". Chicago Public Schools. Retrieved 2009-06-27. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  4. ^ http://www.cps.edu/News/Press_releases/2009/Pages/01_27_2009_PR1.aspx
  5. ^ "Chicago's Largest Employers". ChicagoBusiness. Crain Communications, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  6. ^ Chicago Public Schools Offic of Academic Enhancement, "Selective Enrollment High Schools", Available online at http://cpsmagnet.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=72696&type=d&rn=5261203, Cited September 21, 2009
  7. ^ "Consortium on Chicago School Research finds graduation rates lower than typically reported". Consortium on Chicago School Research. University of Chicago. 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-06.

News and Commentary

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