The Chicago Teachers Union’s preferred model fails in academic proficiency, absenteeism and cost.
The Chicago Teachers Union continues to push a schooling model that produces poor student outcomes and costs taxpayers more.
The union’s most recent contract with Chicago Public Schools includes the addition of 50 “sustainable community schools.” CTU wanted to add 180 of these schools, which the union envisions as community hubs that offer wraparound services for students and families. Right now there are 36 such schools, 15 of which are high schools.
CTU leadership and other proponents of the sustainable community schools model argue that they will uplift neighborhoods and provide students needed support services.
But at the eight CPS high schools that have used the model since 2018, proficiency is lower while absenteeism and spending is higher. Those eight schools also are seeing enrollment fall as families flee them.
Chicago’s sustainable community high schools spend more for poorer outcomes
Seven high schools transitioned to the sustainable community school model in the just-ended school year. The original eight illustrate the poor student outcomes at CTU’s favored education model.
