CPS 5-year plan receives unanimous approval

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago Public Schools is laying out its plan for the future, as the district's new five-year plan was unanimously approved by the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday morning.

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez says the plan, called “Success 2029: Together We Rise,” aims to even out Chicago's "educational playing field."

“We're setting a new baseline for staff in a foundational level and resources that every school will get regardless of size or location. More reliance on our district opportunity index to ensure a greater share of our resources are reaching students and com and communities furthest from opportunity.”

The plan does many things, including ending the practice of allocating funds based on enrollment but will instead focus on each school's needs.

“Our new approach does away with school rankings and labels. And just like our shift in defining students success, we're not just going to be looking at a narrow set of outcome data.

“We're gonna be tracking and focusing the inputs, practices, conditions, resources, and supports; and putting the onus back on the district to ensure that each school has the components to drive student success.”

Goals of the plan include expanding access to academic acceleration for students in predominantly Black and lower-income neighborhoods on the South and West sides.

CPS will also try to get more students to attend school in their own neighborhoods.

CPS said it has also added more than a billion dollars to school budgets and more than seven-thousand staff over the last five years.

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