ExtraOrdinary Districts: Chicago Part 1 – Nowhere to Go But Up

from ExtraOrdinary Districts · host Karin Chenoweth

In 1987, U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett flew into Chicago, declared it the “worst” school district in the country, and flew home, leaving Chicago residents stunned and angry. They had known things were bad, but being declared the worst helped galvanize support for the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act, which launched a generation’s worth of work to improve the […]

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