SUPER SUPES

Commentary:  

A principal's view: Amazing waste at CPS

 

By Troy LaRaviere

In July of 2013 I attended a program titled "Leadership Launch with Dr. Barbara Byrd-Bennett." It was aimed at motivating principals to attend a series of professional development workshops organized by SUPES Academy, a training organization that is at the heart of a federal inquiry. Byrd-Bennett, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, is on a paid leave of absence in light of the investigation of the district's decision to award a $20.5 million no-bid contract to SUPES.

Did CPS really need to pay SUPES $20.5 million to put principals in a room so that we could talk to each other?- Troy LaRaviere

As expected, the program I attended did not begin with any discussion of leadership training. Instead, we got what we had come to expect at every principals' meeting: talk of an impending budget apocalypse that can only be solved by CPS defaulting on its obligation to provide a secure retirement for its teachers.

The meeting opened with Board of Education member and former principal Mahalia Hines, whose comments were aimed at preparing principals for budget austerity. She mentioned principals who had written grants and secured external funding. She praised their efforts because, in her words, "You can't rely on the board to get funding for your schools." She then introduced Byrd-Bennett who continued the austerity theme with empty corporate-speak about principals "leveraging partnerships" to get free or low-cost services for CPS students.

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"Did she really just say that?" I wondered. "Did she just tell us we need to make up for lost funding by leveraging partnerships? Did CPS not just leverage a multimillion-dollar partnership with SUPES with funds taken directly from schools' budgets?"

Eventually, the meeting turned to SUPES training. Byrd-Bennett, formerly employed by the academy, spent a lot of time praising the leadership development program and ended her spiel on a foreboding note. She said if we didn't like the training, we should give feedback on how to make it better rather than criticize the program. The comment made me wonder if CPS was spending millions on a well-developed program or was SUPES field-testing a series of untried and unproven programs still in the developmental stage. Was it serving us, or were we serving SUPES? I would soon find out.

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At my first SUPES session, I sat next to a principal who had participated in previous SUPES workshops. I asked her what she thought of the academy. "A waste of time" was her answer. My session was filled with CPS talking points about "student-based budgeting." The chief complaints from principals about student-based budgeting were that it slashed their budgets, forced them to increase class size to save money and pushed them to hire cheaper, inexperienced teachers. It was as if students were being deliberately undermined. In fact, the whole process is best described as "sabotage-based budgeting."

My second SUPES course went well. I had great conversations with fellow principals and learned a lot from them. At the end of the session, the facilitator announced, "I know I went off script and just let you guys talk, but I felt that was what you needed today." My disgust returned as I realized the reason the session went so well was because the facilitator ditched the SUPES curriculum and just let principals talk and learn from one another. Did CPS really need to pay SUPES $20.5 million to put principals in a room so that we could talk to each other?

Soon afterward, Byrd-Bennett learned principals were becoming vocal about their poor assessment of SUPES. She sent us an email giving us the option to opt-out of the training but requested an opt-out form be sent directly to her. Principals saw it as a threat. I decided to send mine in but was talked out of it by a CPS official who said she would move me from the "New Principals" group to the "Rising and Achieving" group (you can't make this stuff up).

Who was watching at CPS?

I am not against investing in principal training. My time as an assistant principal was the best training I could imagine. During my first year as principal, CPS assigned me a coach — a retired CPS principal whose feedback was extremely helpful in that it assisted me in getting school stakeholders involved in school improvement planning and decision-making. The coaching was relevant because it was provided in the context of my day-to-day work duties. SUPES training was prepackaged, underdeveloped and often irrelevant.

My third SUPES session was titled "Marketing Your School." We were told perception was more important than reality, that principals needed to focus on shaping public perception of their schools. Again, the contradictions were enraging. I told my colleagues that when I became a principal, my staff and I focused on improving our school and enhancing student learning. Without that, there's nothing to market. To me, it appeared CPS was more concerned with changing perception than changing the reality of students' academic lives.

Up to that point, the principals attending that session were relatively passive, but afterward a lively debate ensued about the contradictions between CPS' public statements versus its actions, and SUPES' philosophy.

The bigger picture

There now needs to be a public debate about the contradictions of CPS' stated austerity and its continued wasteful spending on everything from absentee custodial management firms to charter schools to spending $9.5 million on furniture for the district's new offices.

Eventually this public conversation needs to make its way up the chain of command — to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.

Troy LaRaviere is the principal of Blaine Elementary School.

Opt Out Veto Threat

Governor Rauner Threatens Veto of Strongly Supported Parent Opt Out Bill, using Factless Fear Tactics to Scare Legislators

 

Parent Advocacy Group, Raise Your Hand is calling foul on Governor Bruce Rauner’s threat to veto HB306, a bill with wide bipartisan support from legislators and parents around the state that would clarify a parent’s right to opt his or her child out of state-mandated standardized testing.  The bill would ensure that there were no negative consequences for opt out and that children were treated fairly and kindly if their parents chose to opt them out.

 

HB306 is set to be voted on in the Illinois House tomorrow(Friday) in order to move to the Senate. But Rauner has already threatened to veto it, saying that the state is risking a more than $1 billion funding loss if it passes.   

 

There is no factual basis for this claim. In fact,

 

1.At least 7 other states have laws and regulations allowing parents to opt out children already. None of them have ever lost any funding. The New Jersey State Assembly recently passed a very similar opt out bill unanimously.

2.The federal government has never cut any state’s Title I funds under ESEA for any reason, including low participation rates in federally-mandated testing.  Last year New York State had fewer than 95% of children participate in math testing statewide.  Even within Illinois, every year several districts do not have 95% participation, particularly at the subgroup level.

3.The NCLB waiver that IL is operating under right now includes no penalties requiring loss of funds for participation rate, even for the schools labeled as most poorly performing.

4.The US Congress is currently in the midst of working on renewing ESEA. The version that passed the Senate education (HELP) committee unanimously last week would remove all punitive measures attached to accountability. It would continue to require 95% participation, but, just like now, there would be no funding withheld if this was not met. The bill also says that nothing in the federal law preempts a state or local law allowing parents to refuse federally-mandated tests. In addition, an amendment passed that would make clear that ESEA does not preempt state or local law on opt-outs, essentially codifying the actual practice in the states or districts with opt-out laws now.

 

Opt out will happen whether this bill passes or not. Illinois will eventually have less than 95% participation because parents and students will come to realize that these tests are designed to hurt children and public schools, not help them.  

But unless HB306 becomes law, individual children and families will continue to be mistreated: parents will have no way to protect those children who do not have the ability to refuse the tests on their own---short of keeping them out of school.

Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, agrees that there is no [legal basis or] precedent for the federal government to withhold Title I money because of opt out, and he says parents across the country are hearing the same distorted information from their state department’s of education and the US Department of Education:

“95% is part of the requirement to make “adequate yearly progress” (AYP). But NCLB waivers suspend AYP sanctions.

“The U.S. Department of Education has now issued vague statements to several states suggesting, without ever being explicit, that Title I funds could be in jeopardy if districts do not test at least 95% of their students. This is a scare tactic designed to assist states in bullying their parents into compliance with testing mandates,” said Neill. “In fact, the Assistant Secretary, Deborah Delisle, also said the Department does not want to take money away from low income schools.”

Demonize Cheating Teachers

Demonizing Teachers, Privatizing Schools: The Big Lies and Big Plans Behind the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

by Bruce A. Dixon 

Black Agenda Report

When drama queen Fulton County judge Jerry Baxter demanded public post-conviction apologies from Atlanta teachers already convicted of racketeering lest he hand them double digit sentences, it struck raw nerves in parts of black America. Black pastors and community leaders called press conferences. They held rallies and issued stern statements. They denounced the judge for making "common criminals" out of black teachers. Inevitably, they wondered whether white teachers would have been prosecuted or subjected to post-conviction humiliation of this kind. 

They're asking the wrong question. What they ought to ask is why the teacher perp walk is being served up in the first place. They need to ask who profits from the continuing crisis in public education in black and brown communities? The answers are not hard to find. 

The whole thing, from the indictment of Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Beverly Hall, who died before the trial was complete, to the posturing of public officials and corporate media about "cheating the children" is the latest act of a long, long fake crisis. Judge Baxter's histrionics too, in which he called the cheating scandal "the sickest thing that's ever happened to Atlanta," were a great contribution to the story our billionaire-owned media wants to paint about public education. 

The one-percenters need us to believe public education in our communities is some new kind of sewer infested with incompetent teachers who are cheating children and the public every week they draw paychecks. The long, long crisis of public education has been designed, engineered and provoked by powerful bipartisan forces to justify their long game, which is the privatization of public education. That's the Big Plan. 

Since at least 2001, when George W. Bush's conservative Republicans teamed up with Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's liberal Democrats to pass and implement the No Child Left Behind Act, it's been the policy of both capitalist parties implemented by the federal Department of Education to create, to provoke and to exacerbate a phony educational crisis. This program of crisis-creation has been backed by Wall Street, by banksters and hedge fund types, by giant corporations like Wal-Mart and powerful right wing interest groups like the US Chamber of Commerce as well as the so-called philanthropic tentacles of corporate America like the Gates, Broad, Heritage and Walton Family Foundations. The solution to the fake crisis has been the whole industry of testing experts, turnaround consultants, diploma mills for fake principals, lucrative charter school companies and their contractors, and the private but government sanctioned agencies that rate school districts. Even the agencies that rate school districts are staffed by the same "run the school like a business" experts approved by the US Chamber of Commerce who were employed to write President Obama's Race to the Top program, which punishes school districts that don't privatize or implement "run the school like a business 'reforms'" fast enough. 

High stakes standardized testing, like the tests educators cheated on in Atlanta, is an essential tool in provoking the crisis, but it's a big lie. These kinds of tests don't reflect student progress or teacher competency. They track to family income, and family income in the US correlates largely to race. So as Glen Ford put it back in 2012 

The standardized tests were bombs, designed to explode the public schools and the teaching profession. Everyone involved knew that inner city kids would fail the tests in huge numbers, setting the infernal machine in motion for the closing of schools and the wholesale firing of teachers... 

The bombs were planted not just in Atlanta, but in thousands of school districts across the nation, with predictable results. A 2012 story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the same suspicious patterns of radical test score improvement seen in Atlanta could be found in more than 200 school districts across the country, from Philly to Portland, and from Alaska to Alabama. Clearly, cheating teachers and principals in Georgia were and likely still are doing the same things the same way as their colleagues across the country. 

It's also very true that Atlanta's teachers were singled out. Other teachers in other states were merely stripped of their jobs and professional licenses. Teach For America alums Michelle Rhee and Kayla Henderson both headed Washington DC's public schools when massive cheating scandals occurred, but unlike Atlanta's Beverly Hall, neither they nor their subordinates are in any danger of prosecution. Atlanta on the other hand, is closely associated with the notion of African Americans running big cities, so making the example of black educators in Atlanta makes perfect political sense for those orchestrating the crisis. Still we shouldn't feel too sorry for the Atlanta teachers. Beverly Hall turned big chunks of Atlanta's public schools over to privatizers, and even helped divert $140 million a year for more than 20 years away from Atlanta's public school children to line the pockets of developers and gentrifiers in a lucrative boondoggle Atlantans know as "the Beltline." 

If the black political class and black educators really stood for the interests of their students and communities they would be educating black parents and students across the country about their right to opt out of tests that serve no legitimate educational purpose, as teachers in Chicago andSeattle are already doing. 

But that's problematic too. Opposing standardized testing would place the black political class in conflict not with the slippery nebulous demons of institutional racism, but biting some of the very real and easy-to-find hands in corporate America that feed it. Taking issue with standardized testing, Common Core and the drive to privatize education would put black educators in opposition to corporate America, to the Gates, Walton Family (Wal-Mart), Eli Broad and other foundations, and to Republicans and Democrats including President Obama and Arne Duncan, his Secretary of Education. This is not an easy thing to do when national black "civil rights" organizations from the National Action Network and the National Urban League have eagerly accepted corporate-engineered school reform with corporate dollars, and President Obama is deeply beholden to the charter school sugar daddies. 

So it looks like we can count on our black political class to stick to the script on the Atlanta teachers cheating scandal. They'll talk about whether the prosecution was racist, and they'll wring self-righteous hands over teachers "cheating the children." But they won't question those who set up the rigged game of high stakes testing or why. 


Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report and serves on the state committee of the GA Green Party. Contact him at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com. 

Opt Out!

OPT OUT STILL AN OPTION!

By Neal Resnikoff

Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice

Another very good experience taking the opt-out message to another school.

On Friday Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice had a 4-person team go  out to  the Murphy Elementary School at dismissal time.        

Many parents were very interested in learning about the issue.

Others already knew about the issue and had opted their children out of the Common Core PARCC tests in March, one estimating that about 10 students had opted out. One parent reported that there had been lively discussion in the Local School Council on the issue of the PARCC tests.

We also talked to a few teachers, most of whom opposed the tests and thanked us for distributing leaflets. One teacher tried to convince us that the tests are good for students. But she was willing to have a good exchange with one of the team members.

Students were very excited to learn they could opt of the PARCC tests.We told them that they had the right to refuse to take a harmful test, and that no one had the right to punish them for it. 

Many came over to get our leaflets after they saw their friends had them. They then gathered in groups of 10 or more to have discussion about the issues. They got especially enthused when we told them about the thousands of students across the country who are refusing to take the PARCC and other Common Core tests.  Students told us that they thought the PARCC tests that they took in March were a waste of time, and that they did not think they were fair or even clear.                 

This principal--like other authorities  we have been meeting was very upset. She said we were preventing students from heading home--about 50 were still hanging around when she came out. She and the assistant principal said we should not be handing out leaflets to students, only to parents. Though they were frantic and the principal even took a flyer out of a student's hands, they did not threaten to call the police the way the administration of North River Elementary did on Thursday. 

        

All of these administrators seem amazed that we would go right ahead--- after they told us--in effect-- to stop exercising the right of free speech, assembly and the press.                 

  
We are enjoying these opt-out experiences--feeling that whether or not we get more students to refuse to take the PARCC tests, we are getting some students and parents to think about the idea that they have rights and can exercise them despite what "authorities" tell them.

We are planning to distribute at two other schools at dismissal time and. If you would like to join with us, please let us know. It is very useful work. --Neal  

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Hi,

 A 4-person team from Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice had a good time distributing leaflets in English and Spanish against the Common Core PARCC tests  today at the small North River Elementary school.

 

Students were exceptionally receptive to hearing about how they can opt of the new upcoming round of the PARCC tests. Some did not know that more PARCC tests are coming. But many stopped to share their view that the tests they did take in March were unfair and too hard, and that they didn't see any point in taking them and didn't like it. And many came over to get copies of our leaflets and to discuss opting out with us and groups of classmates. Some who had already passed by without getting our flyer came back to ask for one when they heard about it from their friends.

 

Parents were also interested in getting the leaflets, and one said she opted her special needs child out of the testing.

 

One teacher said that about half of the students in grades 6,7,8 had opted out, about 30 in this small school.

 

Administrators were very upset with what we were doing. A vice principal and another administrator and a security guard sent by the principal separately told us  that we could distribute to parents, but that we could not ”solicit to minors” (their words), that this was against Board policy. They were a little late in threatening that if we continued to do this  they would call the police—because almost all the parents and students were gone by then. We pointed out that the school administrators solicit children every day, such as by telling them to take the PARCC tests, and we have every right, including the legal right, to urge the students not to take the tests. --Neal

        

Corrupt After School Too!

Corruption is Chicago's First Name!

The fact that the chief of this country's third largest public school system is under indictment for corruption is interesting.

The funny thing is it was all so obvious - CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett awarding a no-bid contract worth $20 million to her friends was okayed by the Chicago Board of Education.

But corruption is exactly how the whole system works. And hired mouthpieces like Mayor Rahm Emanuel who represent the 1% interests are supposed to keep these things somewhat under control.

But corruption is everywhere.

Why just the other week a parent asked me about computers his children used last year in an online after school program our school used.

The company is called Babbage and they distributed small computers to students to complete reading programs. Once they finished the program the company promised to unlock the computer so the students could use it regularly.

So I looked up the company contact information online.

Then I found this glaring headline: "Father, Son Executives of Niles-Based Companies Indicted."

Yesiree!  Even our humble after school programs are corrupt.

In this case, this company Babbage which had a contract in many Chicago Public Schools last year, defrauded CPS and many other school districts by "falsely reporting pre-testing and post-tutoring results to school districts, taking federal funds and fraudulently billing school districts."

Some student progress reports were even falsified, the Journal Online reported.

Sound familiar? Atlanta anyone where cheating takes front and center stage as everyone's livelihood boils down to a test score.

CPS said they have participated in the investigation, but no more details.

Father, Son Executives Of Niles-Based Companies Indicted

Wheeling, Morton Grove Men Accused Of Defrauding 200 School Districts In 19 States Of $33 Million

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2014 1:39 pm | Updated: 1:56 pm, Mon Apr 28, 2014.

Two executives, one from Wheeling and one from Morton Grove, who ran two affiliated Niles-based education companies were indicted on bribery and mail fraud charges in federal court today (Monday).

Indicted were Jowhar Solutanali of Morton Grove and his son Kabir Kassam of Wheeling who ran Brilliance Academy Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Babbage Net School Inc., both based in Niles.

Federal prosecutors said the men, through their companies, defrauded 200 public school districts in 19 states, including Illinois, out of more than $33 million related to mandated tutoring services for students under the federal No Child Left Behind act between 2008 and 2012.

Kassam was president of both companies and Solutanali was director of operations for both. They were tasked with providing tutoring services using computer-based programs because schools failed to make adequate yearly progress on state exams under federal No Child Left Behind laws.

Federal prosecutors say the two men bribed three school officials in Texas and one state education official in New Mexico and falsely reported pre-testing and post-tutoring results to school districts, taking federal funds and fraudulently billing school districts.

Computer-based tutoring programs were supposed to be custom made but in many cases were generic, not customized to student needs and configured at or below student grade levels, prosecutors allege. Some student progress reports were also allegedly falsified.

The school officials in Texas and New Mexico who were alleged to have taken bribes also face federal charges.

Bribes included meals, a Caribbean cruise vacation and services at a gentleman’s club.

Each count of bribery includes possible prison terms of up to 10 years and fines of up to $250,000. Each count of mail fraud includes possible prison terms of up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine, or a fine equaling twice the gain or loss, that would be $66 million.

Additionally, the companies, Brilliance and Babbage, each face a $250,000 fine on each count and as companies, face five years probation in which terms and conditions would be set and the companies would need to abide by under court supervision.

States where school districts were allegedly defrauded include Illinois, Indiana, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Virginia.

Randal Sanborn, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney of Northern Illinois, said which Illinois schools were allegedly defrauded was not part of the public record. A press release said Chicago Public Schools participated in the investigation.

http://www.journal-topics.com/breaking/article_6b075eb2-cf04-11e3-a168-001a4bcf6878.html

Global Warming

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 

SAVE MOTHER EARTH & HER CHILDREN--STOP GLOBAL WARMING

     Let’s recognize Earth Day by going all out  to eliminate the use of coal, oil and natural gas, and substitute renewable energy.  A University of Hawaii study in Nature (Nov.) says that unless there’s rapid action, the planet could be uninhabitable in the next 30 to 45 years.

  Recent polling shows that more than 70% of Americans believe the government isn’t doing enough to combat climate change. This concern is borne out by Obama’s November announcement that the U.S. would reduce its emissions 26-28% by 2025.  

     How does this correspond to the fact that the U.S.--with China--is responsible for  at least 45% of  the world’s dangerous gas emissions?   

     Yet Obama proclaimed at the UN that the U.S. is leading the fight against global warming. He didn’t mention the U.S. refusal--in all international summits since 1997--- to have its military emissions counted in negotiations about cuts the U.S. should make. Why?  

     The Pentagon  produces more CO2 than any other institution on earth (Professor H. Patricia Hynes, “Military Assault on Global Climate,” Truthout, 9/2011). Yet the EPA has no restrictions on military emissions.      

     Obama is also silent about fact that the government is continuing to allow U.S.  oil, coal and natural gas corporations to do their dirty work.   40% of U.S. coal extractions occur on our public lands (NY Times, 3/24/15).

     In Chicago a minimum demand is for the city to require every new commercial   and public building to be powered by  solar or wind power. 

     But politicians here don’t think there’s any hurry--since coal, oil and natural gas profiteers oppose even modest changes.  For example, The Public Building Commission just refused to put solar panels on the brand new Albany Park library--even though more than $348,000 was left over from the $15 million allocated for it!  

     Americans will not tolerate corporations deciding our future.   400,000 marched in NY City last September--with 600,00 more protesting across the globe. 

     At the UN,  powerful governments were shamelessly maneuvering to cut the least CO2 they could get away with.   

     I hope everyone of good conscience will organize now as they would in an emergency. If  a fire starts in one house, everyone has to make sure it’s put out before it spreads to the whole block. We gladly fund fire departments--and expect them to call on others as needed.  Right now we can’t stand by while more lives and habitats are destroyed throughout the planet.

Betty Resnikoff

Chicago

Charter Enrollment Lies

Nearly 13,000 Empty Seats in Chicago Charter Schools – Increase of more than 1,000 Since 2014

Raise Your Hand Calls on CPS to Stop Irresponsible School Expansions During Fiscal Crisis and Lowest Enrollment in Decades

Chicago – April 20, 2015 – In an independent investigation of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) data from the 2014-15 school year, parent education advocacy group Raise Your Hand has revealed that there are currently 12,637 empty seats in existing charter schools based on the CPS threshold for ideal enrollment. This equates to 64 schools or 50 percent of Chicago charter schools. 

“The issue here is that CPS continues to rapidly expand charters at a time of fiscal crisis and declining enrollment, starving existing schools of needed resources. The money and students are not there to justify this,” said Executive Director of Raise Your Hand, Wendy Katten.

These revelations combined with an enrollment decline of over 7,000 students since 2012 and mass charter, contract and alternative high school expansion since the district closed 50 district schools for “underutilization” have parents and community members across the city demanding a halt to charter expansion.  In light of its findings, Raise Your Hand is calling on Chicago elected officials to support efforts to curb proliferation of charter expansion during this time of fiscal crisis and declining enrollment. 

Parent and Raise Your Hand Board member, Jennie Biggs added, “The number one type of school with waiting lists in Chicago are magnet schools, with over 99,000 applications each year according to WBEZ data.  Parent decisions clearly are not what’s driving the decisions to open more charter schools.”

Below is a comprehensive list of charter schools with empty seats based on CPS’ space utilization data (subtracting reported enrollment from CPS’s ideal capacity figures.  For 2014 comparison numbers, please e-mail amysmolensky@comcast.net.

School Name	Enrollment	Ideal Capacity	Empty Seats	<--2015
ACE TECH HS	448	696	248
AMANDLA HS	325	408	83
ASPIRA - EARLY COLLEGE HS	508	600	92
ASPIRA - RAMIREZ HS	77	468	391
ASPIRA-HAUGAN	578	870	292
BRONZEVILLE LIGHTHOUSE	472	690	218
CATALYST-HOWLAND	468	570	102
CICS-BASIL	634	690	56
CICS-WASHINGTON PARK	432	450	18
CICS-ELLISON HS	479	600	121
CICS-LONGWOOD	1266	1,500	234
FRAZIER PREP	406	600	194
FORD HS	97	360	263
KIPP ASCEND	722	990	268
NKRUMAH	312	510	198
LEGACY	496	780	284
NOBLE ST-COMER HS	1022	1,116	94
PERSPECTIVES-LEADERSHIP ACAD HS	641	984	343
PERSPECTIVES-CAL TECH HS	449	624	175
PERSPECTIVES-IIT HS	572	912	340
POLARIS	426	480	54
PROVIDENCE ENGLEWOOD	512	630	118
SHABAZZ-DUSABLE HS	145	600	455
SHABAZZ-SIZEMORE	268	420	152
U of C-DONOGHUE	566	960	394
U of C - NKO	342	360	18
U OF C-WOODLAWN HS	650	1,320	670
U of C-WOODSON	352	840	488
UNO-DE LAS CASAS	287	300	13
URBAN PREP-ENGLEWOOD HS	477	672	195
YOUNG WOMEN'S HS	336	384	48
EPIC HS	421	624	203
URBAN PREP-WEST HS	418	720	302
URBAN PREP-BRONZEVILLE HS	479	768	289
LEARN- 4 / SOUTH CHICAGO	450	600	150
CICS-HAWKINS HS	237	816	579
UNO-SOCCER ACADEMY	576	600	24
CICS-QUEST HS	295	960	665
CATALYST - MARIA	956	1,020	64
MONTESSORI ENGLEWOOD	258	300	42
NOBLE ST - SILVER / AUB GRESH HS	647	888	241
LEGAL PREP HS	251	600	349
KIPP CREATE	233	450	217
NOBLE ST - CRIMSON HS	266	672	406
NOBLE ST - ORANGE HS	263	1,236	973
CHRISTOPHER HOUSE	167	600	433
CHICAGO COLLEGIATE	173	270	97
INTRINSIC	449	864	415
KIPP - BLOOM	165	540	375
GREAT LAKES	125	210	85
FOUNDATIONS	112	210	98
KIPP - PRIMARY	109	120	11
	21,815	34,452	12,637	Total

About Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education: Raise Your Hand is a growing coalition of Chicago and Illinois public school parents, teachers and concerned citizens advocating for equitable and sustainable education funding, quality programs and instruction for all students and an increased parent voice in policy-making around education. www.ilraiseyourhand.org.

Amy Smolensky

amysmolensky@comcast.net

312-485-0053