Chicago Public Schools: Education Plan

The CPS must prepare students to face a challenging and uncertain world.

Over a decade of education reform has laid a strong foundation for the Chicago Public Schools.

Four central challenges facing the Chicago Public School system.

A description of discussion groups and their participants.

Thanks to the many organizations and individuals who made the Education Plan possible.

The Chicago Public Schools will be the premier urban school district in the country by providing all our students and their families with high quality instruction, outstanding academic programs, and comprehensive student development supports to prepare them for the challenges of the world of tomorrow.

Goal 1: Building instructional capacity
Goal 2: High quality teaching and leadership
Goal 3: Learning communities and professional development
Goal 4: Support for student development, post secondary training and education
Goal 5: Schools as centers of communities in partnership with families
Goal 6: Strengthening existing high school programs
Goal 7: Expanded choice within neighborhoods
Goal 8: Accountability to support improvement in all schools

This Education Plan represents a year of planning and program development in specific areas—Human Capital, professional development, the Chicago Reading Initiative, the redesign of regions, after-school, and accountability—as well as a broad planning effort designed to identify overarching themes and challenges. This broad planning effort included a careful analysis of trends in student and school performance, a review of research on effective schools and school reform both locally and nationally, and an agenda setting process that brought together diverse groups of participants to discuss the central issues facing elementary schools and high schools.