CPS announced that the schools will provide "a higher quality school option" for some 9,200 in "high-need" South and West Side Chicago communities.
More concretely, families were equally likely — across ethnicity and neighborhoods — to choose a high-quality school as their first choice.
Asked about these numbers, Bowser said her priority now is to ensure that families have a high-quality school option, whether charter or traditional.
But it will not be easy.Parental choice is a keystone of the government's education policy, and demand for a high-quality school place outstrips supply.
To those many Americans not free to live in a neighborhood free of gang warfare, or free to attend a high-quality school free of random violence, the war on terrorism to preserve American "freedom" is irrelevant.
Getting such projects done justified some tolerable level of public debt, proponents argued, just as a family might consider a steep mortgage on a home in a high-quality school district to be an investment in the children's success.
I urge Speaker Silver, Majority Leader Bruno, their respective houses, the teachers, the business community and parents to work with Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott and me to transform our educational system into a high-quality school system that we can be proud of...
Even if students' endogenous family resources, learning motivation, and learning ability are poor, a high-quality school education can still effectively compensate for the disadvantages, improving their academic record.
Also, the advantage from attending a higher-quality school was much smaller when we took into account students' abilities versus when we didn't.
