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ARNE DUNCAN,
Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Public Schools
125 South Clark Street, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: 773.553.1550
Fax: 773.553.1502
MISSION
On behalf of the Chicago Board of Education, implement sound business
and education policies and practices that maximize high academic student
achievement; recruit, develop and support high quality teachers and school
leaders; and provide a positive work environment for all CPS employees.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Coordinated a 10-day back to school campaign involving the City of
Chicago, the Chicago Teachers Union, the civic community and faith-based
partners that resulted in a 12.3 % increase in first day attendance
on September 4, 2001.
- Advanced six-year trend of rising test scores, with the following
Year Six results:
- Increased the percent of elementary school students reading at or
above the national norms by 3 percentage points to 43.2 percent. Reading
scores increased in 72% of all elementary schools.
- Increased the percent of elementary school students performing at
or above the national norms in math by 3.8 percentage points to 46.9
percent. Math scores increased in 74% of all elementary schools.
- Increased the percent of ninth and tenth graders reading at or above
the national norms from 31.8 % in 2001 to 35.5 % in 2002.
- Math scores increased in all grades.
- Implemented the Chicago Reading Initiative with the goal of teaching
every student in every classroom to read as soon as possible. All reading
curricula were aligned to a uniform instructiona framework consisting
of four major components (word knowledge, fluency, comprehension and
writing).
- Implemented the Human Capital Initiative in order to recruit, train,
and retain the best and the brightest teachers and principals.
- Expanded After School programs to provide continuing learning and
recreational opportunities for an increased number of students and offered
for the first time an RFP for principals to design their own after school
programs specifically tailored to their individual schools resulting
in 50,000 more students participating.
- Established the Office of Small Schools to promote and support the
creation of all types of small schools at the elementary and high school
levels. The office began a five-year project as a part of the Chicago
High School Redesign Initiative, supported by an $18 million grant from
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other local foundations, to
create 20 new small schools in five existing high school buildings.
- Started the Renaissance Schools initiative by closing three chronically
underperforming schools and planning to reopen two Renaissance Schools
with a new educational concept that will serve as the model for replacing
schools that continue to fail and will represent the greatest teaching
opportunity in urban education today.
- Initiated an incentive program to reward eight elementary schools
and two high schools in each region that have shown the most incremental
change in test scores from 2001 to 2002. Each school will receive $10,000.
- Began streamlining the bureaucracy at central office in order to better
service principals, teachers and students and to provide economic efficiency.
- Consolidated Professional Development under one department.
- Oversaw a revised budget review process that resulted in a structurally
balanced proposed budget.
- Made funds available to finance an additional $220 million in construction
projects.
2002-2003 Goals
- Improve customer service for principals, teachers and students
- Improve external partnership relationships.
- Continue to improve economic efficiency.
- Focus on the fundamentals of learning
- Increase the number and percentage of students graduating and going
on to higher education.
- Increase curricular options.
- Increase civic/community understanding of and support for the Chicago
Public Schools.
- Provide additional staff development opportunities.
- Continue to create system-wide standards.
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