Chicago Teachers Union members, including Charese Muñoz, right, wait to meet with a member of the Illinois State Board of Education on April 16, 2024, in Chicago.
The model claims to be a “holistic” approach to education that brings together educators, families and community partners to meet students’ and families’ academic and nonacademic needs and strengthen communities. These schools are presented as superior models to charter, magnet and private schools. The CTU’s “needs-based” formula is a smokescreen to protect union jobs at severely underenrolled schools, such as Manley Career Academy High School on Chicago’s West Side. Manley was built to serve 3,000 students, but just 67 attended as of 2023. According to an Illinois Policy Institute analysis, a third of CPS schools are half empty. Most are failing to educate the students who remain.
Let’s be clear. The union’s push to transition away from public school choice in Chicago will have its greatest impact on low-income Black and Latino families, as CPS takes away public school alternatives to its failing and often-unsafe neighborhood schools. Real community empowerment is creating community schools that are truly autonomous. That means the vast majority of funding follows the children. Schools are granted broad autonomy over programs, staffing, school calendar and expenditure priorities. The community through elected Local School Councils are given full autonomy to select better school models, adopt programs and enter into partnerships that meet the needs of the children and community.
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