West Side Leaders Urge City To Help Close Black Student Achievement Gap
Black student reading levels have hit their lowest levels in the city in 30 years, advocates say. They are now calling on CPS to do more to help the students.
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Black student reading levels have hit their lowest levels in the city in 30 years, advocates say. They are now calling on CPS to do more to help the students.
The group gathered to illuminate the challenges that Black students face in Chicago Public Schools.
Activists who’d long opposed mayoral control over Chicago Board of Education appointments won a victory in 2021 when Illinois legislators voted to shift authority over the state’s largest school system to a board chosen by the people. Two years later, just before 1 a.m. on May 26 in the waning hours of the Senate’s session, many of those same lawmakers hurriedly passed an amendment extending ...
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