On December 5, the Chicago Board of Education may approve as many as three (3) new charter proposals. Charter school expansion has harmed Chicago schools. Charters add expensive bureaucracy that diverts funding away from classrooms. Charter expansion also spreads CPS resources thin. It creates several “tiers” of teacher and staff, as well, in an effort to undermine fairness, transparency and solidarity among educators.
Enter your information below. On the next page, you can easily email both Janice Jackson and the CPS “Dept. of Innovation and Incubation,” which works to expand charters. Tell them that the false promise of “choice” no longer fools educators and the public. Instead, we choose education equity for all public school students!
