CPEF chief joins national principal certification team
Janet M. Knupp, founder and chief executive officer of The Chicago Public Education Fund, has joined a national group of business and civic leaders that is developing standards for an advanced...
View ArticleCatalyst report on High School Transformation wins national award
Catalyst Chicago has won a national Education Writers Association award for Class of 2011, our report on Marshall High and its rollout of the district’s High School Transformation project. Associate...
View ArticleMarch contracts for principals
Interim principals Patricia Surgeon at Herzl, and Beverly Jordan at Pope, have been awarded full four-year contracts. The following principals have had their contracts renewed: Scott Ahlman, Hibbard;...
View ArticleFormer CTA vice-president joins CPS
Sarah Kremsner, former vice-president of performance management of the Chicago Transit Authority, has joined new CEO Ron Huberman’s team of top officials as performance management officer in the CPS...
View ArticleTop CTA officials move to CPS
Adam Case, former chief of customer communications for the Chicago Transit Authority, is now deputy chief of staff to CEO Ron Huberman; Denise Turner, former senior project consultant in performance...
View ArticleNew Latino advocacy group meets with CEO
A newly launched advocacy group, Latinos United for Priorities in Education, is the brainchild of former CPS principal Carlos Azcoitia, now a faculty member at National- Louis University. The group’s...
View ArticleTop CPS official heading to national nonprofit; turnaround principals selected
Carmita Vaughan, chief of staff for the CPS Office of High School Programs, has been named chief strategy officer for America’s Promise Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based organization focused on...
View ArticleWhere new schools will be located
Seven new Renaissance 2010 schools will share space with existing CPS schools this fall, and four more new schools will move into buildings that now house schools slated to close, district officials...
View ArticleCollege access expert leaves CPS for DC
Greg Darnieder, the longtime head of the CPS Office of College and Careers, left the district this week to become special assistant on college access to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. While at...
View ArticleEarly childhood teaching awards
Four CPS educators have been named recipients of the 2009 Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Award for teachers who work with children from preschool through 3rd grade in the Chicago metropolitan...
View ArticleEaston leaving Consortium for Washington
John Q. Easton, executive director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, will be nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of...
View ArticlePrincipals yanked from 2 schools
Clifton Hunt, principal of Oglesby Elementary in Auburn Gresham and Darreyl Young-Gibson, principal of Julian High School in Washington Heights were removed from their posts and, according to a...
View ArticleNew Mason High to be modeled on Spry Community Links
Beginning this summer, Mason School in North Lawndale will begin a new high school program modeled on the Spry Community Links High School in Pilsen. At Spry, the goal is to foster better connections...
View ArticleEarly Learning Council in the works with Obama Administration
A Presidential Early Learning Council, much like the Illinois Early Learning Council here, is in the works with the Obama Administration. The Department of Education and the Department of Health and...
View ArticleMath & Science Academy comes to Chicago; Kellogg teacher wins national award
ACADEMY COMES TO CPS The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy is slated to open a Chicago field office at Doolittle Middle School, as early as this summer or early fall. The office will offer...
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