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McManis, John T. Ella Flagg Young and a half-century of the Chicago public schools (1916) online; Peterson, Paul E. School politics Chicago style (U of Chicago Press, 1976) online, a major scholarly study of 1970s. Rury, John L. “Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago’s Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education.”
Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...
The following is a table listing the individuals that held the position of "superintendent of Chicago Public Schools" from its creation in 1854 through its dissolution in 1995: Ella Flagg Young (served 1909–1915); CPS' first female superintendent; first female public school superintendent in a major US city [4]
Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks before a march to demand that police officers be removed from schools in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. June 24, 2020.
Many CPS employees were appointed by the Mayor, and a 1931 study found that Chicago spent more money than any other major city on operations costs outside of education. [8] The proliferation of bureaucracy was a serious concern: when the Elementary Teachers Union formed in 1928, one of its stated goals was "freeing of teachers from the ...
A part of Alexander Graham Bell School featuring a y-shape in the architecture, common in Chicago architecture. Alexander Graham Bell School, also known as Bell School [2] is a public school located in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States; it is a part of the Chicago Public Schools.
In the 1960s, the Chicago chapter of CORE began to challenge racial segregation in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), addressing disparities in educational opportunities for African American students. By the late 1950s, the Chicago Board of Education 's maintenance of the neighborhood school policy resulted in a pattern of racial segregation in ...
Louis B. Nettelhorst Elementary School is a public K-8 school in Lake View, Chicago. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) school district. Its namesake is Louis Nettelhorst Sr., a German immigrant who once headed the Chicago Board of Education from 1888 to 1892. [1] An 1893 Chicago Tribune article described him as "one of the most ...