The Chicago Board of Education voted Thursday in favor of a resolution that could limit the opportunity for students to test at selective Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high schools in the name of “fairness.” , according to NBC 5 News.
The resolution recommends a “transition of privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that increase stratification and inequality in CPS and shift student enrollment away from neighborhood schools.” seconds in the Chicago Sun-Times. CPS intends to codify the five-year plan and launch it in the summer of 2024, seconds on NBC 5.
“While the strategic plan will be developed in collaboration with our entire CPS community, we are putting equity and students at the forefront of opportunity,” said Jianan Shi, president of the Chicago Board of Education. said in a statement on Thursday.
“Although selective enrollment was originally designed to desegregate the school district, it has instead contributed to further segregation since a consent decree mandating racial diversity ended a decade ago,” said the Union of Masters of Chicago. said in a statement on Wednesday.
The resolution will create a model that will focus on neighborhood schools “by investing in and recognizing them as institutional anchors in our communities, and prioritizing communities most affected by past and current racial and economic inequality and structural disinvestment.” , CPS said. statement reads.
Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said during his campaign that he “would not end selective enrollment in CPS schools.” seconds in the Chicago Tribune.
Nearly 76 percent of high school students and 45 percent of elementary students do not attend assigned schools, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. CPS officials established an application process six years ago, so that eighth-graders would apply at middle schools instead of immediately going to their neighborhood schools.
Chicago's selective schools “address the needs of Chicago's most academically advanced students.” seconds to the selective preparation.
The creation of selective schools was intended to provide an alternative to low-performing schools in the city. Nearly 75% of CPS students cannot read at grade level and nearly 83% are not proficient in math. seconds at Illinois Policy, a nonpartisan research agency.
Chicago leaders said families will still be able to choose selective enrollment, magnet and charter school options, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Officials said they plan to hold meetings for the public to say whether or not they want to leave such schools.
At least one of the parents interviewed didn't like the idea of ​​moving away from selective schools, according to NBC 5.
“Selective enrollment schools are one of the shining stars of CPS. They're actually something that CPS has done right,” Katie Milewski, a CPS mom, told NBC 5. “And it needs to be supported.”
Some left-leaning school districts in the United States have been eliminating honors classes in the name of equity.
Several school districts in California have it Removed honor classes Culver City High School in California recently Removed honors classes after failing to enroll enough black and Latino students, and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California made a similar change to its honors classes.
Johnson and the Chicago Board of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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