Chicago Public Schools student Steven Jiang wins citywide spelling bee
Steven Jiang, 13, outlasted 47 competitors to correctly spell “saturnine” and win the 2023 contest. He advanced to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.
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Steven Jiang, 13, outlasted 47 competitors to correctly spell “saturnine” and win the 2023 contest. He advanced to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.
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Steven Jiang, 13, outlasted 47 competitors to correctly spell “saturnine” and win the 2023 contest. He advanced to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.
“I was super, super excited and so thankful that this principal has a vision and knows his students deserve this and is making it happen with a really tight budget,” Nora Wiltse said.
The nation’s third-largest public school system with 290,000 students in 513 district-operated, non-charter schools, CPS has only about 90 schools with full-time librarians.