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Ahead of a Chicago Board of Education vote Thursday on renewing contracts with 49 publicly funded charter schools, supporters, including parents, educators and advocates, rallied to demand longer renewal terms than the one to four years Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez recommended. The board later approved each proposed renewal agreement in a series of unanimous votes, with two ...
The two schools around Little Village, Instituto Health Science Career Academy and Instituto Justice and Leadership Academy, enroll a total of 550 students.
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Acero operates 15 charter schools in Chicago; they were the site of the first teachers strike at a charter school in the country in 2018.
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Hope Learning Academy, which contracts with Chicago Public Schools to operate, abruptly announced this spring that it will shut down.
CHICAGO—All through the heated and confrontational Chicago mayoral race, crime seems to have been the top topic in the Windy City, especially for one of the two finalists.