Overview

Through creative and collaborative approaches, Academic Enhancement is dedicated to providing parents and students with educational opportunities that include:

• Choice: Increasing educational options for parents and students
• Equity: Ensuring that all students have equal access to the programs and services available
• Innovation: Providing programs and services that are designed to meet all student needs, interests, and skill levels
• Service: Meeting needs and exceeding expectations of all stakeholders through efficiency, expertise, courtesy and accountability

Goals

Academic Enhancement provides leadership for the development of enhanced educational options that will increase choice for parents and students and ensure equity of access for all students by:

• Providing coordination and management for a variety of enhanced educational program options designed to meet all student needs, interests, and skill levels.
• Managing the student assignment application, selection and notification process for the District’s Options for Knowledge schools and programs (magnet schools, magnet cluster schools, open enrollment schools, Selective Enrollment Elementary Schools, and Selective Enrollment High Schools, Military Academies, and College and Career Academies).
• Providing information and assistance regarding Options for Knowledge programs and selection procedures to parents, students, and community, as well as schools and Area and Central offices.
• Developing and redesigning policies and procedures that expand choices and ensure the continuity of equitable access for all students.

Current initiatives

Academic Enhancement is focusing on increasing the number and variety of academic programs available to students by:

• Providing additional opportunities to fill available spaces at schools and accommodate students who were not selected during the regular application period.
• Providing information to parents regarding educational opportunities at high-performing schools with available space.
• Increasing access to the three Regional Gifted Centers designed for English Language Learners.
• Providing an annual appeals process for parents and guardians who believe that an error occurred in the processing of their child’s application to a magnet school or program, or a selective enrollment school or program. The process for the 2011-2012 school year will be accessible via www.cpsoae.org from April 18th through May 31st.

Accomplishments

Recent accomplishments include the multi-million dollar grants awarded to the department and expanding and refining our application, selection, and notification processes. Our other accomplishments are listed below.

• Centralized the application process for magnet schools, magnet cluster schools, and open enrollment schools.
• Developed a new online process for applying to Selective Enrollment Elementary Schools, Selective Enrollment High Schools, Military Academies, and College and Career Academies.

Resources

Resources offered include several publications that provide information about the programs offered by the District as well as details regarding the application, selection, and notification process such as:

• Options for Knowledge Guide: English | Spanish

For more information about the programs and services we provide, contact us at (773) 553-2060 or visit the Office of Academic Enhancement website, www.cpsoae.org .

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