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Chicago Public Schools Mary B. Richardson-Lowry, President Terry Mazany, Interim CEO 125 S. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 773-553-1500 Email: [email protected] CENTRAL PURPOSE Differentiating instruction To increase student performance, the district will Chicago Public Schools (CPS) serves approximately invest in Response to Intervention (RtI) framework 403,000 students in more than 676 schools. It is the which is based on the principle that all children can nation’s third-largest school system. The mission of learn using a multi-tiered approach to meet the needs CPS is to ensure that every child is on track to of struggling students especially in the areas of graduate prepared for success in college, work and reading and mathematics. life. To reach that goal in an increasingly challenging budget environment; we are continuing to focus Early Childhood Education resources on the following key areas for the academic 2010-2011 year: Preschool for All – More than 16,000 children will be prepared for a successful entry to kindergarten. 1. Maintaining and enhancing classroom resources; Program offers a minimum of 2.5 hours a day of 2. Providing parents with options and students with preschool programming for three- and four-year-olds, enrichment opportunities; and is designed to promote a comprehensive 3. Ensuring the safety of all CPS students; approach to early childhood development. The 4. Measuring the performance of all programs; district also invests in Community Partnerships improving efficiency and streamlining operations. Programs which supports community child care center programs in preparing eligible children for GOALS FOR 2011 successful entry to preschool or kindergarten. Maintaining and enhancing classroom and Head Start – This program will allow CPS to prepare supporting resources more than 6,500 low income children for entry to kindergarten. This focuses on education, socio In addition to maintaining projected classroom size at emotional development, physical and mental health, 28 for K-3, 31 for grades 4-8, and 33 for grades 9-12, and nutrition services for preschool children and their the district will focus on: families who have incomes at or below the Federal poverty level. Talented teachers In partnership with the State of Illinois, and with the Full-Day Kindergarten – Program provides teacher support of private funders such as The Chicago positions to supplement district-funded half-day Public Education Fund, 1,804 CPS teachers have kindergarten teacher positions, thereby increasing completed National Board Certification, making time on task for kindergarten children. Chicago a leader among large urban school districts. Teachers become eligible in their fourth year of Meeting the needs of all learners, including students teaching and must meet rigorous standards to with specialized needs become NBCTs. More than 400 schools have at least CPS anticipates that 13% of the student population one NBCT and 57 schools have 15 percent or more will require specialized educational services, which NBCTs on staff. can include direct classroom instruction and aide 271272 support; evidence-based instructional supports; Science, Law and Public Safety, and culinary and transportation; assistive technology; or clinical Hospitality programs. services. Investments include: teachers and aides; clinical and related services; specialized schools and Expanding efforts to improve schools that have services; and charter and contract support. consistently struggled academically Providing parents with options and students with The number of turnaround schools is 17 of which 12 enrichment opportunities are managed by the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) and the other 5 schools are CPS aims to maintain and create engaging learning managed by the CPS Office of School Improvement. environments that encourage all students, and the provision of challenging and rewarding experiences Continuing high-quality programs that support before, during, and after school, including: academic instruction and enrich the development of children outside the regular school day, including: Serving students through magnet schools, selective enrollment schools and programs, and Advanced Supplemental Education Services provide tutoring Placement and International Baccalaureate services to 35,000 students, including 80 hours of Curriculum targeted math and reading instruction to 3,300 students. The 86 Selective Enrollment Elementary Schools (SEES) schools are geared for students who Community Schools impact 30,000 students and consistently demonstrate superior general reasoning 5,000 parents in 140 schools by providing ability and/or potential to excel in specific academic, enrichment, sports, and health programs before and creative or artistic areas. Magnet cluster schools after the school day. specialize in one of the programmatic areas: world language, fine and performing arts, technology and IB Additional Learning Opportunities Middle Years Programme. CPS offers magnet cluster pilot programs are now in place in 15 elementary programs at 115 schools. schools to increase after-school learning opportunities in math and reading using on-line tools. Through The nine Selective Enrollment High Schools provide ALO, the short CPS school day is effectively academically advanced students with a challenging increased by two hours a day. Programming is linked and enriched college preparatory experience. to classroom instruction and provides access to critical new technologies. Serving students through a network of charter and contract schools Sports programming serves approximately 41,000 elementary school students at more than 300 schools Launched in 2004, Renaissance 2010 was an who participate in 17 sports and extra-curricular initiative to increase the number of high-quality programs. At the high school level, more than 50,000 educational options across Chicago by the end of students at 120 schools participate in 31 sports. 2010. In six years, 103 new Renaissance 2010 schools have created innovative options for students Ensuring the safety of all CPS students in 20 of the 25 priority communities identified by the project. In total, CPS has 82 charter campuses. The district aims to reduce the likelihood that at-risk CPS students will engage in, or become victims of, Supporting students in finding the right college and violence; and create a safe, secure and supportive career opportunities for them environment for CPS students to improve attendance and excel academically. To achieve these goals, CPS In addition to our College and Career Academies, invested federal stimulus funds in the creation of an career and technology education curriculum is innovative Violence Prevention Initiative to serve at- available in 11 different industry areas including: risk students through the following programs: Technology and Communications, Business and Finance, Construction and Architecture, Health 272273 Student Mentorship and Advocacy Services Partner The information is meant to provide a board picture of with community groups to provide mentoring and factors that influence and inform our services to advocacy services to the district’s highest risk students and the entire school community of parents, students partners, and constituents of the city of Chicago. Culture of Calm: Provides self-awareness resources District Demographics and anger management programs to 38 focused The majority of the district’s 403,000 students attend neighborhood high schools serving more than 38,000 traditional public elementary and high schools. Some students. students attend one of the non-traditional schools, which include charter, performance, alternative and Safe Passage: Implement School Community Watch contract schools. Programs in school neighborhood experiencing high incidence of violence. Program is designed to Student Racial Breakdown provide community members with opportunities to African-American:45% become involved with safe passage for students Latino: 41% traveling to and from school. White: 9% Asian/Pacific Islander: 3.6% In addition, the district partners with Chicago Police Native American: 0.2% Department to provide off-duty Chicago police officers to 96 high schools. Student Population Characteristics Socio-economically, CPS students are Measuring the performance of all programs; disproportionately low-income as compared to the improving efficiency and streamlining operations rest of the state. 83.4% of CPS students come from low-income families and at least 10,000 homeless Central Office departments have developed outcome- students are served by CPS schools annually. based performance metrics and are using the data to Students defined as low-income are those students, identify strategies to improve the efficiency and aged 3 through 17, who come from families receiving effectiveness of the services they provide to schools. public aid, live institutions for neglected or delinquent We conduct quantitative and qualitative research to children, are supported in foster home with public assist data-driven decision making for program funds, or are eligible to receive free or reduced price improvement, assessing program impact and policy lunches. development. District Enrollment by Grade Level During the past fiscal year, CPS reduced Central (as of March 2011) Office and other administrative costs to allow for a Grade Level 2010-11 2011-12 heightened focus on funding schools. All non-union Preschool Actual22,912 Projected22,845 employees who make $50,000 or more