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Chicago Public Schools leadership and the Chicago Teachers Union are making yet another play to eliminate school choice for Chicago parents by eliminating selective enrollment schools, including 11 selective enrollment high schools.
Members on the Chicago Board of Education, appointed by former-CTU organizer Mayor Brandon Johnson, approved a resolution which would transition CPS away from “privatization and admissions/enrollment policies” that allow students options to enroll in public selective enrollment schools, among others.
I expect the middle class parents whose kids attend these selective schools will move to the suburbs–while the lower class kids are out of luck. Note the mayor promised to support these selective schools in the campaign.
His 28% approval rating makes it seem he may very well be a one-termer. It took both Lightfoot and Emmanuel a few years to get below 30% approval.
So says the Daily Mail. Do you have a link for that?
I read this very long campaign educational plan and it does not seem consistent with selective schools:
Making Every School a Sustainable Community School
I see stuff like this:
The specialized schools I see tooted do just about everything except prepare students to enter selective four your colleges:
Maybe I am missing some inconsistent statement he made during the campaign. But it seems like he is following the heart of his educational platform.
No way I would have voted for him, but parents dreaming that their child will go to the University of Illinois or University of Chicago couldn’t possibly have thought Johnson was their guy.