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CPS Parent

@ParentCps

Parent to children in a neighborhood school. Not part of a school system, teachers' union, charter, or anything, really.

Joined October 2019
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CPS Cuts that Don't Affect the Classroom 1) $21M: Eliminate "The Network" Miami Dade has no bureaucracy like "The Network." Principals there report to the central office & receive more autonomy. And in Chicago we have LSC's who can recommend removal of a bad principal. 2/5
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Erika Sanzi@esanziNov 7
Notice the focus on adults' feelings and not whether or not students are actually learning.
Eric Deters (@bulllaw) profile pictureEric Deters
@bulllawNov 5
🚨NOW: Georgia's new Education Secretary wants to declare war on testing in schools, says they "stressing out teachers"
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Meh i think most kids know what is healthy and what isn't....and they know halloween candy and potato chips taste good. 8 hours, more than one school day, if anything, is too much.
The 74 (@The74) profile pictureThe 74
@The74Nov 6
The average American student receives fewer than eight hours of nutrition education a year, and only about half of U.S. schools have district- or state-level food education requirements buff.ly/aJnIYX6
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Help! Genuine ?: In 2013 (the rahm school closings), did cps screw up the sale of buildings, i.e., did they have too many rules on who could buy closed schools and how the property was to be used? Or was it simply real estate in areas developers saw no potential growth/profit in?
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something to look for on the horizon at cps, the budget that was passed over the summer will not hold up the positions that were given back on the assumption that general assembly would provide more funding to all illinois school districts in veto session will be recalled
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Idea for CPS to save $ instead of closing more schools but might get people to call me a Trump: End Spanish language ed in K-2nd grade. At that age, kids are better off if they learn to read in english. Consolidate some K-2nd classrooms, save $, better life for kids too.
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I love that @biggs4chicago talked about academic standards in her victory speech. I don't love that she keeps talking in generalities about community involvement in school consolidation decision. It sounds good but is such b.s. but there is a way to do it 1/3
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No community will ever say "yes, please, close the school my kid goes to!" Community involvement is 100% a farce if engaged like this early on. But there is a community that needs to be engaged... 2/3
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....and that is the families of nearby schools that will be receiving students from closed schools. That's where community engagement needs to happen, to make a welcoming environment for new families as possible. Those whose school is closed are gonna be mad no matter what. 3/3
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Dale Chu
@Dale_ChuNov 5
If a pharmaceutical could double the rate of learning and, under the right conditions, eliminate socioeconomic achievement gaps, we'd be falling over ourselves to make it available to every child. In education, we call it Direct Instruction. And we're still arguing about whether it's too scripted and authoritarian.
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I'd like to look at it more, but @CTULocal1 @debbypo victory in 1A is quite impressive, given this map. --Hilario lost her district to Biggs --Pope won with 64% in a 3 candidate race --Pope was far outspent (unlike in 2A where inexplicably the billionaire skipped)
Frank Calabrese (@FrankCalabrese) profile pictureFrank Calabrese
@FrankCalabreseNov 5
Replying to @ParentCps @biggs4chicago
@ParentCps @biggs4chicago
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2B not 1A* oops!
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Saw this, wondered how many CPS elementary schools were severely underenrolled by the metric "how many schools have 10 or fewer sixth graders?" The answer: just 6 of 454 CPS elementary schools have 7-10 6th graders. (No school has 6 or fewer). ty @Beckyvevea for the file 1/2
Chalkbeat (@Chalkbeat) profile pictureChalkbeat@ChalkbeatNov 5
One Harlem middle school has just six sixth graders. Now NYC wants to close it as the city confronts a growing crisis of underenrolled schools. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/1…
NYC wants to close 2 Harlem schools — and revive a controversial Upper West Side relocation

NYC wants to close 2 Harlem schools — and revive a controversial Upper West Side relocation

One Harlem middle school has just six sixth graders. Now NYC wants to close it as the city confronts a growing crisis of underenrolled schools.

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I'll look into this file more later. But for now, this confirms what I suspected. While CPS has some severely underenrolled high schools, it doesn't have that many severely underenrolled elementary schools. Limited chances to consolidate and save $... 2/2
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Does CPS publish this data in easily accessible form? I know we have severely underenrolled high schools, but how many CPS elementary schools have fewer than ten sixth graders?
Chalkbeat (@Chalkbeat) profile pictureChalkbeat@ChalkbeatNov 5
One Harlem middle school has just six sixth graders. Now NYC wants to close it as the city confronts a growing crisis of underenrolled schools. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/1…
NYC wants to close 2 Harlem schools — and revive a controversial Upper West Side relocation

NYC wants to close 2 Harlem schools — and revive a controversial Upper West Side relocation

One Harlem middle school has just six sixth graders. Now NYC wants to close it as the city confronts a growing crisis of underenrolled schools.

chalkbeat.org
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Iowa's new governor. Love his first sentence. J.B. Pritzker has sadly not focused on this.
Rob Sand (@RobSandIA) profile pictureRob Sand
@RobSandIAAug 24
Like most Iowa parents, we want to focus on math and reading, not political agendas from either extreme. And like all Iowans, I want us to get back to having the best public schools in the country. As governor, I'll fight for Iowa's public schools because my kids are counting on them, too.
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flagging for @ChicagoContrar1 so Paul Vallas can endorse his fellow suburbanite.
Frank Calabrese (@FrankCalabrese) profile pictureFrank Calabrese
@FrankCalabreseNov 5
Chicago mayor candidate John Kelly faces a residency objection alleging he lives in a 12,713-square-foot mansion in suburban Homer Glen. Will County court records show his contractor billed $4.4 million in construction costs. His driveway features a giant “K” for Kelly.
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Anyone good w maps? I'd love to see a side-by-side of this vs who won district races. It appears to me that @biggs4chicago won some districts in which the CTU district candidate (DeBerry, Pope, not sure who else) won.
Frank Calabrese (@FrankCalabrese) profile pictureFrank Calabrese
@FrankCalabreseNov 5
Jessica Biggs won the Chicago School Board president election, defeating CTU backed Hilario Dominguez and attorney Victor Henderson. 🔵 Jessica Biggs: 49% 🔴 Hilario Dominguez: 31% 🟢 Victor Henderson: 18%
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cswir@cswirNov 5
Who said it better?
Austin Berg (@Austin__Berg) profile pictureAustin Berg
@Austin__BergNov 5
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates is now claiming Hilario Dominguez’s 18-point loss was the result of outside spending “rigging the results” in the race for board president. This comes less than 24 hours after Gates invoked the threat of a teachers strike. This kind of rhetoric should be called out for what it is. The Chicago Teachers Union’s political leadership is refusing to accept the results of this election.
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I know she knows more about politics than I of course but incredibly accurate predictions from @Stephanie_Skora. 6 of 7 listed below won (all but Brown). And Girl I Guess correctly didn't predict wins from the other 4 CTU-endorsed who lost (Hilario, Bannon, Thotakura, Dunneback)
Stephanie Skora (@Stephanie_Skora) profile pictureStephanie Skora@Stephanie_SkoraOct 6
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My 7 are: Peralta, DeBerry, Rios-Sierra, Zaccor, Brown, Blaise, Lopez. Pope, Lozano, and C. Anderson could also easily win, so there's a realistic path for a 50/50 split Board.
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A repulsive moment in the School Board President campaign. I didn't know that @biggs4chicago 's campaign manager was the same person who survived harassment from a powerful person in state politics. And campaign managers are campaign managers not candidates for a reason 1/2
Alaina Hampton (@alainaxhampton) profile pictureAlaina Hampton@alainaxhamptonOct 22
Defaming victims and survivors and refusing to take accountability is a pattern for Hilario and his aligned folks. The real question Chicagoans should be asking is: why did the CPS OIG investigation, which was open for 5 years, close only weeks after Hilario became a candidate?
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And the campaign manager didn't make herself the issue. But @HilarioForCPS called her out by name on the debate stage. An attempt to silence, to intimidate. I am so glad he lost more than his hair yesterday.
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