A new list is out and it should be required reading for anyone who cares about the Chicago Public Schools.Greater Grand Crossing! That community is in our ward. What can we do to give them more help?
It tells us where the real problems are.
The need for quality neighborhood elementary schools, it turns out, is concentrated in just 25 of Chicago's 77 community areas clustered on the South and West Sides, according to a study by IFF, a local community development financial institution and research organization.
Drilling deeper, IFF unearthed the eight community areas in the worst shape of all.
These neighborhoods don't have any high-quality, "performing" neighborhood schools. That means that nearly 23,000 kids in these neighborhoods have no chance of finding a spot in a quality neighborhood elementary school. The neighborhoods are Avalon Park, Douglas, Fuller Park, Greater Grand Crossing, Pullman, South Chicago, South Shore and Washington Park.
Here's more:
Greater Grand Crossing, for example, has eight neighborhood schools. None are performing. Adding a few quality Renaissance 2010 schools could help, and CPS is targeting these eight needy areas, but new schools can't do it all.Read the whole thing!
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