District officials pulled out all the stops to connect over the summer with the families of students who disengaged or only intermittently participated in learning last year. That included home visits by both district employees and staff at partner community groups to about 18,000 students flagged as being at a high risk for not returning this fall. The district was able to engage with the parents or guardians of about 75% of them.
CPS is a colossal mess. They wait until the last minute to expose their Covid plan, deny CTU time to turn it into Swiss Cheese; simply child’s play! School opens today but nobody knows anything. A lot of We think, We Hope, We Might. No school bus because there are no drivers. Why no Streets and Sanitation to drive busses? DOWM drivers? Is anyone at CPS capable of chewing gum. They answer by throwing cash at parents to provide a means to school. I call BLSHT! CPS is paying parents to send the kids to school under the excuse a… Read more »
Bill
4 years ago
It would be much safer to just close them permanently.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
CPS is a colossal mess. They wait until the last minute to expose their Covid plan, deny CTU time to turn it into Swiss Cheese; simply child’s play! School opens today but nobody knows anything. A lot of We think, We Hope, We Might. No school bus because there are no drivers. Why no Streets and Sanitation to drive busses? DOWM drivers? Is anyone at CPS capable of chewing gum. They answer by throwing cash at parents to provide a means to school. I call BLSHT! CPS is paying parents to send the kids to school under the excuse a… Read more »
It would be much safer to just close them permanently.