Families are demanding the Chicago Board of Education develop a more flexible, innovative and approach to remote learning. They want to be collaborative partners with the district in shaping kids’ learning through these unusual and tough times.
Author: Cassandra Kaczocha
A CPS Mom Explains How the CPD Got Into CPS and How to Get Cops Out of Schools
Over the weekend there were marches advocating for the removal of police from Chicago Public Schools. I think a few things are important to understand about how we got here. Although there were sporadic instances of Chicago police involvement with Chicago Public Schools, the first formal relationship between CPS and the Chicago Police Department began in 1966, when off-duty cops…
Here’s How My Family Escaped the Selective Enrollment Rat Race
In the 1980s my parents spent the night in their Toyota Tercel, waiting in a line to get a lottery number to get me tested and into a spot for kindergarten at a magnet school for gifted kids. In 2012, our family waded through an online lottery process to get our oldest into a kindergarten spot at one of Chicago…