Months ago I wrote a post called I believe in Chicago Public Schools. And I still do. In June we bought a home in the city with the plan to send our children to the neighborhood public school.
Yesterday I met with Jean-Claude Brizard, the new CEO of Chicago Pubic Schools. It was a great conversation but I admit that perhaps I was a bit naive about the state of our city’s school system. It’s in rough shape. We’re one of the “lucky” ones. We can afford a home in a “good” district. The disparity is discouraging. We discussed the longer school day, high school reform, class size, crime, teacher evaluations and much more. I’ll be writing a couple posts within the next week about these topics.
Until then, I wanted to share the links of the four other bloggers in attendance in case you want to check out what they took away from the meeting. I’m not sure when or if they’ll be writing.
Stay tuned for more…
