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Chalkbeat on MSNChicago school board to consider saving 4 of 7 Acero charter schools slated for closureThe board’s vote could change the original plan, which was to save all seven Acero schools slated for closure next year.
The Acero charter network announced last year plans to shutter Cruz K-12 as well as Casas, Cisneros, Fuentes, Paz, Santiago and Tamayo elementary schools due to declining enrollment, increasing personnel and facilities maintenance costs.
Chicago Public Schools, Black student and Success Plan
Secret service agents were mistakenly identified as ICE officers when attempting to enter an elementary school, creating a potentially stressful environment for education majors stationed in schools.
“The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst,” wrote American Enterprise Institute fellow Andrew G. Biggs, a federal overseer of Puerto Rico’s insolvency reorganization, in a recent New York Times commentary. Last year, Chicago’s official pension actuary issued a similar warning.
The school district is grappling with tighter budgets and is locked in a labor dispute that advocates worry could lead to worse services and care for children with the highest needs.
As many as seven Chicago-area schools had announced delays, closures or e-learning Tuesday due as a cold weather advisory continues.
State Supt. Tony Sanders sent a message to school leaders last week, instructing them to continue teaching LGBTQ+, as well as Black and Asian American history. The state’s Inclusive
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