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Jackson Potter mentioned Dyett in the Chalkbeat article, but their gains have to come from elsewhere in a place that's losing population, and schools like Phillips have gotten cannibalized by any gains they've made... and Dyett is down 100 students from its peak in 2020.
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There just aren't enough kids to fill these schools right now. A school can launch a STEM program or whatever to attract new students, but they have to pull them from somewhere else. You can keep some parents from driving east, but at some point it's a zero sum issue.
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Looking around Logan is a great example of the problem. Chase is empty (one class/grade), Yates is empty and only two blocks from Moos. Darwin isn't exactly full.
If you want a visual: These are the 8 schools with the majorities of their boundaries in Logan:
(h/t @anthonymoser.com)
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Brentano is an example of a school that managed that turnaround: From being on Rahm's initial list of closure-threatened schools to a trendy pick for families today.
...but...
>60% of Brentano students come from outside its boundary, pulling away from other emptying schools.
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I agree with this to an extent.
The way you see schools turn around is when well resourced families attend and put time and effort into the turnaround.
…and frankly there are a lot of vocally progressive education activists who wouldn’t touch these schools with a ten foot pole for their own kids.
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There’s a dark irony to the fact that Snelling was BJ’s best hire, because it mostly happened due to his activist circle being an ACAB zone, so when he had to choose a top cop he didn’t have a loyalist to pick from like for most every other position.
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There's been a lot of Brandon Johnson comparisons, but ironically enough, his police commissioner pick was his one competent hire...and a huge improvement over Lightfoot's choice.
Of course Johnson also can't stop saying stupid shit about crime, so he gets no credit for good results.
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Pedro Martinez became sort of a folk hero amongst anti-CTU people, but there's definitely a discussion to be had about how things got to be this bad under his watch.
Though ironically, that's not why CTU wanted him fired... they wanted things to KEEP getting worse.
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Geez, it’s late and I missed “Metro area”.
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My best guess is there’s likely still a lot of infill land available within city limits.
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I’m not sure there’s a better personification of Chicago Bluesky than that guy.
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A legacy of Portuguese and Spanish colonization, respectively.
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After at least six years of declining enrollment, 2024 was the first year that enrollment went up, but still way below where they were five years ago and they're only operating with a single classroom per grade.
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I did my best to come to their events to the extent that anyone with two infants in the home could manage to do, but eventually it seemed like the group just kind of fizzled out.
The school is no longer considered by the state to be in the lowest performing 5%, but still well below CPS averages.
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Parents would ask questions about the possibility of adding programs like Dual Language but would get responses from staff that they really didn't have the numbers do do stuff like that, especially anything that'd require a second classroom per grade.
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A few years ago, a couple local parents of preschoolers tried starting a "future families" for the school group to try to get a critical mass of families to support the school and turn it around.
One of the things they did was a school tour, and it was striking how empty it was in there.
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The year we moved in, the school had less than 3% of students performing at grade level in reading, and 2% in math.
Unsurprisingly, homes on our block have signs in their front yards for schools like Goethe, Pulaski, Drummond, etc. Parents "playing the lottery" is the norm over here.
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That doesn't mean they sleep.
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Please stay safe, neighbors…
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Update: It’s now Sunday and we still have people riding on the roofs of their SUVs down Armitage.
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Do I even want to know what “the Movement” is supposed to be?
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I mean, it doesn’t seem like Zohran has thought any how he’s going to pay for anything he wants either.
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That place was my go-to every weekend when I lived down there.
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Did CPS ever finalize the details of this plan? It would be an absolute disaster for Logan Square where the entire neighborhood fights to get into two schools.
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There’s a rather significant chunk of public health academia that just exists to give a faux-scientific veneer to crappy sociology research that exists to validate views such as those held by Dr. Marino.
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like if this is true, we should be way less compassionate to *most* drug users (I do not agree fyi). I feel like this is just a permission structure for certain individuals who are “high functioning” to avoid feeling like they’re engaging in socially harmful behavior
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