Chicago Public Schools

What’s unique about Misericordia is the fact that it isn’t a Chicago Public School (CPS). In other words, it doesn’t need to follow the same guidelines for instruction that a public school might have to follow. An example would be that CPS has to abide by Common Core while Misericordia doesn’t. In addition, at CPS schools all of the teachers have certification and are all licensed teachers. However, at Misericordia, the instructors do not necessarily have to be certified or licensed teachers. With

Chicago Public Schools are the fourth largest district in the U.S and one of the lowest performing in the U.S. The school system in Chicago is struggling not only with student performance, but also with the large amount of debt the school has and the fight to come to an agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union. In earlier years of 2008 through 2013, student performance was below national average. Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah author of “CPS test scores show gains in the grades 2 through 8” explains that

The Chicago Public School system was slow to integrate even after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of 1954. It took much protesting, federal involvement and public outrage to finally bring about more racial equality for the students of Chicago. While the Brown v. Board of Education ruling is thought of as being the reason any racial equality was brought to schools after such long hardships for the African American students, Chicago had a difficult time bringing the ruling to fruition and federal

Georgis, Donnell, Mike, Moose For the second time in almost 4 years, over 350,000 Chicago Public School Students may not be able to go to school because of the CTU Strike that is currently in progress today (The Washington Post). The issue between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools has not been solved yet due to disagreements about the income received. The Chicago Teachers Union has made offers to school administrations; however, the responses were not in their favor. The union has

Chicago Public Schools, let's just take a few minutes and really think about what it would be like to go to one. One thing that I know is that I wouldn't be where I am now. When I think of the words Chicago public schools I have three words that rush through my brain. Poorly funded, Low graduation rates, and really unfair to the kids. The public schools in Chicago are so poorly funded that the outsides of the buildings are falling apart. They have no air conditioning system they have to use fans

One such example is the current negotiation between the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU) and the Chicago Public School Board. Both parties have their own interests and goals, in resolving this situation in their favor and both use various tactics to get what they want. The parties primarily involved in this negotiation are the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers

As of late, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has shown great improvements in its high school s. Over the past 16 years the high school graduation rates has steadily increase. Students were more likely to drop of school as they were to graduate; now students are three times likely to graduate as to dropping out. For the CPS high scholars, graduation is a strong indicator of a host of very important life outcomes, including post-secondary and employment outcomes, health, incarceration, and life expectancy

everything ought to be given to them rather than really meeting expectations for it. Take a gander at President Obama, he made it." That is in reality genuine, however quite a few people think along these lines. Take a gander at the south-side Chicago Public Schools for

of education. From watching so many of your peers drop out of school, getting pregnant or even fall victim to senseless homicide. As a student of Chicago Public School (CPS) I noticed how little value is placed into the education system and also how teachers seemingly forget how a student's background affect how well they are able to learn in such difficult situations. I can remember having different classes each period in high school and all of my teachers instructing their class with their own

scar on the American society and culture. The Great Depression had also affect the public schools especially Chicago Public School, causing problems that even today we are still experiencing. The primary document I have choose is Chicago Public School and the Depression Years of 1928-1937 by Lyman B. Burbank. This primary document is interesting as I, myself went to a Chicago public school, both elementary and high school, and to see how the system has fail and how different mayors throughout the great