The committee on education in the committee on education and
Child Development will start. Good evening the committee on
education and Child Development. Will now come to order
today will be cup of Conduct in the subject matter hearing
to learn more about CPS in his ass. As soon as resources,
we know, historically that CPS the CTU city colleges and
the unions have not worked together along with city
council. We've done our community, a disservice. And so now
that we see what is all this happening around our
communities, it's our responsibility to work together.
and,
it's
And so today will start those conversations. We will get
weekend with the roll-call vote. No, we will be meeting
with roll. Call to establish, for y'all got excuse me. It's
my first time sitting up here so
Vice-chair Angela clay.
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a non-member. Any other non-members that I missed?
They?
There are eight members present. We have a quorum
alderwoman. Stephanie Coleman has requested to attend this
meeting virtually. Can I get a motion to allow?
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All those in favor. Signify by saying I I
The eyes have it at this time. We begin the public comment
period. The. Is limited to 30 minutes out of respect. For
everybody's time. Each speaker is limited to two minutes
where we have one person. That is a virtual.
On bed.
That is Joy Burton if I'm not mistaken.
Joy. Please press star 60 muted.
Okay, thanks. Hi, I'm so Advanced and I live in South Shore
with this Lord graduated from with me on magnet. Both, my
parents graduated from Chicago public schools and my dad
went on to Ceta Englewood High School and was later
promoted to vocal music coordinator for CPS, I take a lot
after my dad and turns of health problems. But when I was
34, I was diagnosed with polymyositis a rare neuromuscular
autoimmune disease, that affects the proximal muscle and it
affected my lungs. But now I have interstitial lung disease
and makes me hired at the population with death if I get
covid 15 antibodies, okay? If I got infected so I had to go
off one of my business to get my third shot with the
vaccine to work and went back. Masculine optional. My
rheumatologist told me because of my condition.
I feel we're.
I still wear masks everywhere, I go but I don't go out much.
I used to be gainfully employed but now I'm on disability.
And last thing I want is for anyone to be unable to work
full-time because of long covid does disabling and
debilitating many people like me feel weird being thrown
under the bus to fend for ourselves and bacon. CPS
increased covid medication has 26. Students, teachers and
staff are going up again, how to prevent anyone from being
in the same boat. I'm in, but from covid, ican't help. But
wonder how many students teachers and staff are dealing
with brain fog, difficulty concentrating. How many of The
Strokes, heart attack, diabetes, covid, screening
pre-existing condition, people didn't have before and it
earlier ages Hot Monk, over the cars and fast forward. It
is ineffective student enrollment asked me if you taking
now to help prevent and long covid 2 stomach and organ
damage.
Hummus bar, and we also want to recognize that all Demi
Moore is here as a non-member. Next week, we have javar
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I was once I saw Elizabeth Triplett.
Thank.
Thank you. Chairwoman Taylor for holding this meeting or
this hearing I'm sorry. As we start another school year,
still thousands of our families continue to struggle to
find an affordable place to stay. One family that has
caused me. So much concern is a mother of five children.
Who along with her ailing mother had to sleep in the living
room of a relative. She was speaking. Now, on comfortable,
it was an concerned staff. Would try to help
We try to help her find an affordable apartment in North
Lawndale or somewhere in the city.
I am so inspired by her efforts last school year. She found
two jobs and still manage to get five children to school.
She had a mild stroke and is still having a lot of health
issues. She has survived and is still struggling to provide
a stable, decent living situation for her children and her
mother
And other.
And others I pray for her and others like her. It is very
disturbing that so many have to struggle just to live and
to give their children a fighting chance. This is why we,
as members of CTU continue fighting for affordable,
housing, including passing measures, like bring Chicago
home for all of us, families, having stable condition, like
an affordable place to stay, and a living wage, would make
the mother of five along with her early mother's life. So
much better, and give her children of red, real chance to
fulfill that dream of having a successful career and a
happy life Miss Triplett.
This.
It's okay. Thank you. Miss Triplett
neck.
Next, we'll have Kenneth Newman.
Good evening to call older women Taylor. Thank you for
holding this meeting. It's been probably 12 years since
this education committee had a positive meeting.
So, my bad.
So my background in sports and my background and
understanding, how to make young people, follow the
straight and narrow path has to also include the fact that
our young people in the city often live in places that are
Athletic Facility deserts vast neighborhoods of this of
this area don't have the athletic facilities so that our
young people can develop their athletic talent and go from
school and Club teams to college and professional level
teams or even Olympic teams. There was a time when Chicago
produced a lot of athletes for the US Olympic team in many
sports.
So, I have gotten a list year. When I'd like to read about
some of the schools in CPS who don't have it, who don't
have their at all at Athletic Facility,
Do.
Dyett High School needs a new 400m track and artificial
turf field in Washington Park.
Listen.
The same thing for Kennedy. High School in Wentworth Park.
Joey high school as empty land and needs that same thing
War has needs a completely new field in a track. Meet after
high school can be and the new track and field in Mather
Park.
just,
Jesse Owens park should be completely change and I hope to
see the school district and a Park District finally work
together because for the last eating, a hundred years.
There's been a lot of conflict between CPS and CPD, and
having worked at Pershing Road, and having worked for the
park district. I know all too much about that conflict.
It's also, we also need to know that 425 for 25 /, 25
years, CPS violated state and federal guidelines on Title,
Nine for twenty years from 2019, to 95 to 2015, CPS
violated state and federal guidelines on physical
education. And so, some of these issues that continue to
hurt our, our young people, and they need the athletic
facilities, which the Suburban schools have. Thank you.
Thank you, mr. No man will have
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Thank.
Thank you charm woman tailor for holding the steering. I'm
talking about today, the over 16,000 students and CPS right
now that including some of my own students who are students
in temporary living situations. I've learned the force to
leave that even the best teaching
and,
And the best schools.
And the best schools cannot teach away. Homelessness,
that's why we're here. And that's why I met Union sibling
loves this was talking about bring Chicago home, for
example, and highlighting, right now that policy has
brought us to this moment, we're not here by accident
policy to my list, public housing and a rebuilt. It it took
your application, chairwoman Taylor in 1993, and then
finally gave you housing, last May policy has brought
thousands of new neighbors to Chicago and CPS in this last
year and our English language, Learners do have specific
needs around bilingual education instruction in English
instruction and their native language which is not always
Spanish. Sometimes it's ordered it's under this is Arabic.
Sometimes they're indigenous languages but they also have
other a very, needs that are coming to children. All across
your cargo many children including for born in Chicago and
newcomers alike, with experience, and family. Separation
weather through immigration or legal, proceedings, Street
violence or other means, teachers and social workers like
myself.
Mom.
Mom, my grandma. We have been showing up at work at police
stations at shelters and it free stores. Bring you ass
neighbors, but we need policy to fix the situation. We need
the city to continue collaborating with mutually networks.
Answer to you to provide the wraparound services and
sustainable Community Schools that all of our students. And
all of our family is really need to thrive. Thank you. Can
you say your last name for the record zamaron, thank you.
Next, we'll have Abdul Muhammad.
Goody.
Good evening, alderwoman Taylor, and all the other, all the
people in the building, I would like our president of
Chicago principles, administrator and administrators
Association speak before I do.
For the right ba is actually right behind, you know, we
want him to go first if you want him to go first.
Good.
Good evening. Beautiful people and thank you for granting
that request. Appreciate it. We're going to be submitting
the request soon. I just want to let you know for this body
is committee to conduct hearings on the removal of black
principles and CPS. It has come to my attention that
management officials from CPS have been planting poison
pills in the form of rumors designed to scare council
members away from these principles so that those hearings
never happened. Someone address those rooms please. I've
been told that they've been spreading the rumor that
principals like a dude, Muhammad drummer on Kimball,
Kimberly Gibson, took out PPP loans to scare you all the
way from the case. So one taking out a PPP loan is not an
offense taken out of fraudulent. PPP loan is in a fence.
Only did they not take out fraudulent PPP loans? They never
took out any PPP loans.
O p. P p.
Opploans. No mortgage loans. No car loan. Nothing.
let's,
Let that be clear so that we can focus on the truth of what
CPS did to. These outstanding Educators. Focus on the
truth, there is nothing to be afraid of council members.
The only people who need to be afraid of people who are
afraid of the truth and those are the people who planted
those poison pills to scare you away from that true. So
that those hearings never happen. So I'm hoping that we can
focus on that truth, right? In the truth is that folks like
Abdul Mohammed and drill, Maryland. Kimberly Gibson
outstanding records. Two of their cases were completely
fabricated and that's not opinion that's based on evidence
that would come out in this body if those happen. And then
you have folks like, a brother, like, drummer of Dunbar.
Not only doesn't, it was a case. Like the case was so
fabricated, they haven't even released it. He doesn't even
Know what he's charged.
Know what he's charged with yet, and he's been removed since
last December almost 9 months and he still does not know
what he's charged with. That deserves your attention, I
hope you give it your attention. Thank you so much for
giving me your attention right now. Thank you.
This.
List of Muhammad.
Good.
Good evening, everybody. Good evening everybody. Once
again, I just wanted to say that my name is Abdul Mohammed.
I've been an educator for 29 years in the city of Chicago.
25 of those years have been in Chicago Public Schools as I
taught for 17 years. I was awarded the teacher of the year
for the city of Chicago actually was honored. I don't think
it was here, but it was in City Hall by Mayor Daley. When I
want the teacher of the year award. I was nominated twice
for the golden apple as well as featured in who's who among
American High School teachers. I've dedicated my life since
I graduated from college to underserved communities in the
city of Chicago, that has been my work in black and brown
communities serving. Our young people, when I got to Lynn
Bloom this year in 2020 to bite me I was selected by the
LSC to be the principal of them below. There were people in
Chicago public schools that disagreed with the LSC
selection. So they worked to undermine the LSC selection by
calling LSC man.
Asking.
Asking LSD.
Asking lse members to start the process over again, even
though they started with 11 candidates asking them to add
other candidates to the process, the LSC members stood
strong and they selected me as their principal. And from
the day that I arrive at Lindblom, which was July 7th of
2022 to the day. I was unjustly removed from the emblem,
which was March 30th or 31st of 2023 officials in Chicago.
Public Schools work to undermine my leadership at Lindblom
Math and Science Academy as Troy said, the case against
myself and the other principles is completely fabricated.
We have the evidence to prove that is fabricated and we're
asking that you are looking to it, that you are do an
investigation so that you can see that the Chicago public
schools. Law department is fabricating, cases against black
principals in the city of Chicago. Thank you very much.
Thank.
Thank you. Missed Mohammed. Doctor Kimberly Gibson.
but I've
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for hearing us today.
My name is Doctor, Kimberly Gibson. I have over 40 years
experience with Chicago public schools on the Proud product
of Chicago, Public Schools. I attended John Haley,
Elementary School, in, Austin Community and I graduated
from Whitney, Young Magnet, High School.
I am here to tell you that you need to do herrings and
investigate. These investigators I have not taken out a PPP
loan. Never took out a PP long and people are trying to
silence us. They don't want us to speak out against what's
really going on in Chicago Public Schools. You can check
the records, you can fact-check. I was the victim of a hate
crime while working at Harriet Tubman Elementary. I was the
first black woman principal of Harriet Tubman Elementary,
in the Lakeview Lincoln Park area. I went into the expected
to challenge the status quo and bring diversity, equity and
inclusion, and all Chicago Public Schools, as we just
created a new Equity department, but in doing it was met
with push back and just four months after being principal.
I was met with text messages. That said you won't be here
long Niger.
My.
My life was threatened. I reported it, nothing happen. I
want a few more months. You might know that you saw my
school on the news for having the name, change with CPS,
refuse to pay to have on my keychain. I got together with
the alderman, Alderman. Sunny, and I worked with Senator
fagenholz and my parents route to raise the money. So are
Marquis could reflect a abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, and
not a racist scientist.
Taxi.
Play.
Please investigate these investigators who are Lionel
principles coming up with these fraudulent charges,
especially the Law Department because they don't want to
address the hate crimes. What they want to do is scare us
into resigning and quitting, but we won't be muted. Thank
you, thank you.
Nice.
Next, we'll have Sylvia Pittman.
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Good evening. Miss pronounce, Cavalia Pittman Sedalia.
Thank you. Thank you. All the alderman Taylor for having
this meeting with appreciate it.
I read.
I represent not just Chicago Teachers Union, but I'm also a
grandmother of two children that go to a Chicago Public
School in the Austin Community. Many of us in the Austin
Community, black, and brown students, already are facing
deficits in our budgets, the school budget. So now we have,
we have the stls students. But on top of that, we have new
Mini, newcomers that are coming into our area in the Austin
Community and the resources are not there. They weren't
there before the newcomers came and they're not there. Now
that the newcomers are here
and we,
And we need policy, as my colleague was saying earlier
policy needs to be looked at because the funding is not
distributed correctly and then when things are said we had
newcomers come after the middle of the year last year and
my principal was told we had about 30 about 20 something.
And we were told that was January, we go to school till
June we needed interpreters. We also needed a bilingual
teacher. That was not to be done because we were under the
number of what it is. Elementary schools need to have by
angle teachers just as well as he
Angle teachers just as well as high schools, especially
Spanish since we are a sanctuary City and because the
newcomers are coming and we're accepting them. We need to
be able to have the funding the proper funding to be able
to have what our students need be a black brown. It doesn't
matter what nationality but we need the funding so that we
can provide the services that I stood snake.
and
Thank you. This concludes our public comment. We do have
one written comment that committee members have received. I
also want to recognize all the person so it says and
aldermen Gardner for Cornwall committee members. There is
one item before us has a subject matter here in on CPS has
resources. I want to introduce to Chuck's snorsky. I messed
up Chuck same all the time senior advisor Chicago Public
School to introduce his team and to start the presentation.
Before I get started, we just introduce ourselves.
Thank.
Thank you, Alphonso, Carmona of the chief portfolio officer
for Chicago. Public Schools started my carrier almost 20
years ago in the back of the Yards Community as a teacher.
I hate this elementary school did my residency. I chills
Elementary School in the Brighton Park Community. I became
a principal in 2010 of chills Elementary School in
Bridgeport, Chinatown Philly. And then after the last three
years, before joining a portfolio, a year-and-a-half ago, I
was the networked at 10 Chief covering various schools in
the far. Southwest part of the city's oldest goes from
Midway to Beverly. So I'm really happy to be here today.
Did.
Good afternoon. My name is Patty Massa. And I am the chief
of the office of Language and Cultural education within
CPS. I started my career as a bilingual teacher, and a
special education teacher back in 1988. I have had a lot of
experience in high school and Elementary School. I have
also worked in charter schools, and private and public
schools.
Turn the light.
During the last five years, I worked as a principal at West
Park Academy. And then I was the network for Deputy the
last roll I had before I joined, Jose was as chief of
network for, thank you.
Good afternoon evening, I'm sorry I'll leave Muhammad
deputy chief office of College and Career Success. I've
been in education Now 26 years 21 in Chicago Public Schools
started my career as an English teacher actually on the
west side of the
I'm sorry, a duck, not Douglas. High School that I'm
nervous to work with this my first time. So thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Alright, and Collins High
School is my first standard Stockholm to school with the
principal Boston police checked on Austin had three
schools. My first principal job that I had the pleasure to
serve as the principal at my alma mater, Corliss High
School in the last five years. I've been in this job now.
30 months and 6 days. Thank you.
Good evening, Charles Mayfield. I'm the Chief Operating
Officer for CPS. I've been with the organization for 13
years. You said that I was at Air Force veteran for 24
years because that also work for the Chicago Housing
Authority and in the private sector all within the
operations r. L a p p, your thank you.
Could.
Good evening. Give me my name is Ben Felton on the chief
down officer. I've been with CBS about 13 years, starting
my career in education. As a teacher, third grade teacher
on the south side and then taught on the west side at
Spencer elementary school for a couple years as well.
Thanks.
Goody.
Good evening. One on Jamel, Chambers city council liaison
for Chicago Public Schools, a beer. Thank you. Before you
start we have so I called this person's name but apparently
these glasses, they working that. Well the name is Jane
charnock. My apologies, thank you so much for holding this
hearing. Juf is a broad network of social service agencies
and you'll be serving half-a-million Chicagoans of all
faiths and backgrounds including through Educational
Services provided for children, with Developmental and
disabilities and behavioral issues through a 3 therapy.
Today, schools that have a contract with Chicago, public
schools. These students have already exhausted that the
resources available to them through CPS. And I'm not able
to learn in a traditional public school. Classroom, most
years, cash it and jcfs Chicago serve at least 150.
where,
We're.
We're back to the therapeutic Day School than Westridge,
poke and in Northbrook. I want to bring to your attention,
to specific issues are agencies. Have faced with CPS, one
is severe delays in payment for services and a lack of
consistency in expectation. And interpretation of
state-wide regulations. Heard Lee is waiting on payment
from CPS services in April and May 2023 in the amount of
$200,000. The invoices have been outstanding due to
negligence and just use to the services provided including
disputing each invoice. Based on a child attendance and
transportation costs. This situation has repeated itself
multiple times. Invoices were unpaid for more than six
months in 2021 as well as in 2022.
Cash.
Kesha.
Cash at.
Cash that runs on a tight budget and depends on multiple
contract to continue to offer a wide array of services for
children and adults with Developmental and intellectual
disabilities, the delays make it extremely difficult to
continue the programming. We need to pay staff time and for
Building Maintenance in the thousands of dollars and held
up funds, do not help the situation more over CPS if he has
to apply Illinois, regulations mute ably. As similar cases
are treated differently. Executive director, Jen Phillips
reports. That for example, one of the invoices from April
2023 has been held up due to CPS interpreting and Illinois.
State Board of Education, regulation, in a way contrary to
us. Be. Thank you and I look forward to. Are you looking
into a CPS a thank you for your comment.
Good evening.
Even.
Evening, chairwoman Taylor vice-chairwoman clay, mini
vice-chairman, clay and members of the committee for the
record. My name is trucks were skiing a nice service, the
senior advisor of intergovernmental Affairs for Chicago
public schools. First off, I would like to congratulate her
on her appointment. Over the years, I've had the pleasure
to work with you, to support the students of the 20th Ward
in the city of Chicago. I look forward to working with you
as we align our energy and arts, nessnitty to provide
Chicago students of the quality education and all the
support they need to succeed.
Neck.
Next, I would like to thank you all for inviting us here to
provide a series of updates around student, enrollment and
demographics. Staffing numbers are capital footprint,
transportation services, and how we are providing ongoing
support to our students and temporary living situations and
our new arrivals, please note. And this is important that
the data points provided today are most consistent, with
the school year, 22 23 in the weeks after the 20th day,
which for the record is September, 18th. The CPS team will
provide updated data which will we will provide through the
cherry and individual older people
I'll just maybe.
While this may be our first meeting of this Municipal term,
we look forward to joining. You all again in the near
future with that. I'll pass it over to dr. Alfonso Carmona
to provide updates on a district structure demographics in
a Roman numbers. Thank you again, and we look forward to
working in collaboration as we prepare every trial for
success and Career College in Civic life.
Altima Altima.
Give me.
The information that he just read off, was that distributed
at all.
You.
Your your report that you just read off with that
distributed at all, to the council, was it distributed yes
for the presentation? I don't have it. So we can do we have
any copies here? And Council will get you a copy of
everything is statement and the packet say it again.
Who is?
Listen to the chair.
That's what?
That's what we always get that information and counseling
committee.
Thank you a good evening again, before the officer. And I'm
going to spend the first part of this presentation talking
about demographic, information on talking a little bit
about Charter Schools as well. And giving an overview to
the council. About the structural CPS, I wanted to start
with the first slide, talking, specifically about the
vision of CPS and how the vision has a bowl from success
star here to success for all, and we are in the process of
upgrading and updating at work. So did you plan and one
with the items that we really want to emphasize is a party
or faction? And is it in your weight? If we go to sign
Solutions with communities to ensure Equity of access,
excellent in programming
An equitable resources in financial stability. Every
student will experience high-quality academic, social
emotional and cultural responsible learning develop.
Competencies of the CPS, grab a profile and be prepared for
possible. He's obsessed. So, it aligns perfectly with the
mission of ocps and wanted to make sure that this is
emphasized us. Will you provide some background information
on the district? I want to start with the district has
structure. And once again, as Jack mentioned, this is based
on data from last year was still waiting for the data on
the 20th. A total number of schools in the district is 634.
With 514 of those schools are managed by the district 423,
elementary schools, with 91 High School's. What about
75,000 the students? As I mentioned before, I wasn't at
work cheap and there were 13, had the opportunity to
network, and I'm sorry I had the opportunity to work with
all 13 networks in is this
The Berrics.
That excites in the district with 369 schools in 4 high
school, net worth with 82 schools within those networks.
There's also 59 schools that fall under the umbrella. I'll
be as known as independent school principals and then we
have four schools that are under the option Network that is
managed by CPS we have for, I'm sorry, a schools that are
contract schools in 111 Charter Schools as of last year
does Charter Schools.
Everything about 50 to.
Everything about 52,000 students, there's one safeschools,
I'll speak a little bit more about that when we talked
about this structure and the type of schools within the
district. Next light.
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Last year during Porta information as we discussed our
demographics are, we have teddy almost 36% of the students,
in our district wear black students 46.5% of students with
latinx, students 4.4% of students with Asian descent 11%
students worldwide. And then when it comes to learning
styles, we have a last year, 22.4% of students that are
considered a yell and 15.3% of students students that
receive our services and have an IEP at the economically
disadvantaged students in the district. We're almost 73%.
I want to.
I want to spend a few more minutes talking specifically
about how the schools are go. Burn it within the district.
We have four specific structures one. As many of you know
that district one school of this Amana school that bass, my
go to students attend, this type of schools, we had the
charter school that is do burned by the is outer Eyes by,
well, my department. They ain't nobody showing and ink
flation Department of Health Rise by the bore under chapter
27, a of the school code, we have contracts schools that
are authorized on the chapter 34 of the school code,
and then, we have a
And then we have a very small group of schools that are
basically contract by the district under a specific
programs. In, these are considered Benders ocps when he
comes to school types. And I put some numbers in here for
additional information. We have 594 traditional schools, 27
option schools, I mentioned before, the photo of those 27
and managed by the district, how many of these schools are
serving students at over age of students that are behind
credits or students that are in juvenile detention center.
We also have a schools that are considered weak holding a
lot so these are Alternative Learning opportunity schools
that basically serve as students are at risk that I
considered raised and that usually have individualized
Student Success plans. You also have once a school in the
district. This school is. Usually housing students are at
Clancy's.
in the
In the process. As soon as the water spell from their
school of origin, they are receiving a location on the
December Ella, we have 777, I'm sorry specialty schools,
schools that are a specialized in special education
programming and we have five buildings that are considered
Early Childhood Center.
What?
I wanted to also provide a little bit of clarity on the next
light or something that sometimes can be a little bit
confusing thing in for other opportunities. I can also
spend thing is that when he comes to School Ties, we have
two main groups, we have either attending schools out with
some people called in some schools, or this cold and
neighborhood, schools decent schools that have a Define
attendance boundaries in which the vast majority of the
students in our district attend to. But we also have
city-wide schools district schools, that don't have a
specific songs. Do not have a specific boundaries. You may
be familiar with some of Dan, what is selective enrollment
School magnet schools and Charter Schools. Also fall within
this umbrella desert schools that are there roaming our
city wine Road,
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Next line.
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I just
Additionally, I want this tree has and I, I apologize for
how small this is, I know, I know I'm sorry. I don't I
don't manage the size of the screen, but I did want you to
spend time also, talking a little bit of a decal, any
procurement and ended up several opportunities that I were
students have in the different choices that exists within
the district. We have magnet schools like I talked briefly
about them. We we put into this this group I was to let you
know how many schools I might have closed the schools. We
have a stamina leak, Early, College, stem schools. We have
IB program schools, elementary high school level. We have
Again The Selective enrollment schools 11 of them,
I will.
I wish I.
are we have a
Are we have dual language? Schools are primarily have the
objective of the students learning a second language. We
have fine and performing arts schools. We have other
specific programs, Montessori or language, pronouns
technology programs. We have CTE programs in many of our
schools, as well as many of our high schools offer AP
classes, the schools that are providing outdoor language
and dual enrollment classes as well as J H T C in for some
of you especially for for my my my colleagues educators are
you are familiar with many of these programs and then you
you probably, if you choose this type of schools, for some
of, our new members of the council, I wanted to provide
this additional information about the complexity of our
district in the next to us lies about charter schools. And
in the next life, particular talked a little bit about the
nice, 96 campuses talking about specific buildings with 35
unique
Open.
open Raiders, these particular operators operates several
campuses or there's many of them are only have one campus
besides the charter agreement that CPS has passed out with
this operators, this older agreements and all the contracts
from facilities at least from Title 9 compliance,
background check and set it on your specific contracts and
agreements that we have with this app providers nh10 their
providers set the
The.
There are.
The opportunity to negotiate with the district, about the
individual agreement for services in the services that they
provide. I wanted to provide the council this table that
speaks highly about this students. The schools are
servicing. I briefly talked about the demographics is and
tell him 3 or that table. You see the demographics of the
city and the second column you see the demographics of
charter schools. Currently charter schools have service in
96% of the students in the 10:30. Schools are either black
or Latino students or the numbers are particular service.
In two populations are higher than the district average.
A fight.
I finally wanted to speak a little bit about Italian
contract schools, we have 24 of those campuses in the
district, as well, as I mentioned before, the four schools
that are run by the district, is a change that has happened
happened in 22 2023. When it comes to options tools
optional, schools were managed before Under the Umbrella of
innovation. Innovation last year, the district decided to
create a new network. With the network Chief in the network
at Deputy the same as structure that extends, from any of
our networks. So I started last year than ago, now has or
the optional schools are under the network which provide
more flexibility and more oversight from the district Under
the Umbrella of the office of network support. I want to
pass now the microphone to my
Call Lake.
Khaliq Ali, Muhammad school will be speaking about students
in temporary living situation and committee members have
any questions.
Aren't you?
Are you a?
Are you awake?
I remember.
Tell me more so I can understand of the total number
students at 35.8%. And then when I'm talking about, when we
get into the black students and when we get to the Charter
School data of that, what was that percentage and charter
schools?
That was.
That were African American 53.2%. That's the number is that
fits 32.2 + 53.2% of the 35 or 50 3.2% of the number that
are in charter schools. That's a great question. That's 50
through 50 to 2.52 per cent of the number of students that
attend charter school and what is that? Total number of a
little bit of a 52000 students last year, okay?
All right. Good evening again. So I'm here to present the
give information about the students in Tipperary living
situations, known as stls citizenship, real living
situations, that's c, l s Department, advocates for
students. In temporary. Living situations are Department of
Justice, various enrollment Transportation attendance, and
retention, and provide students and families information
about available resources to protect the rights of an
provide services to pre-k through 12th grade children. And
their families who are experiencing homelessness in
students who qualify to receive SE us stls Services. Have
the right to immediate school enrollment, Transportation
wave school fees and tutoring students. As the other
students may also qualify to receive free uniforms, free
school supplies, free School meals and low-cost or free
medical referrals nexlab please
what?
one.
one thing.
One thing I do want to call it at the mckinney-vento act
and give you the definition of homelessness Children and
Youth through like a 62 regular and adequate nights at
residence. I can sit in the homeless including those who
are Sharon House of the other person, do the loss of
housing economic hardship or similar reasons referred to as
doubled up living in an emergency or transitional shelter
living in a hotel.
Trailer park.
Trailer park for camping ground due to a lack of alternate
adequate accommodations living in a car Park public place,
abandoned buildings, substandard housing bus or the train
station or assembly setting Avenue primary nights at
residence. That is a private or public space not Destiny. 2
lore Nelly used as a regular sleeping, accommodation or
abandon and a hospital. Next lie, here we have numbers of
students enrolled in stls, we have numbers from 2022 and
2023, so as of last year, there was 16059 students enrolled
in spls programs. You see them soon as they no longer than
road that usually is students who are either graduated or
have left CPS, you see the transportation numbers there.
And then we also provided numbers on those who may be
double up in terms of the categories in the situation.
Nick.
Next.
Next lap.
Next Lab, please.
The.
The sum of the solutions for students in temporary living
situations, the SLS probably needs more funding to support,
SLS in Newcomb and families with transportation. That would
be Ventra cards translation device for school to the crease
language barriers and it should mediate enrollment 1 /
school cellular phone to Myra families. That have food
first phone service, hotspot and a translation app. One per
family, and miscellaneous tab to assist with the
increasing. Number of bestial s Advocate schools schools
with 75 or more homeless students and newcomer student
enrollment and play.
and,
And if there are no questions, I'm going to pass over to my
colleague, doctor cremate a size.
How to make?
Autumn in Chico.
Play Future quick question because of my background. I
worked for DCFS work for as a case worker in the shelter.
What kind of relationship is there between CPS and DCF ask
when you use money as children kind of move around
throughout different parts of the city's having some type
of level continuity because they're drinking shuffle all
around at a critical point in their life.
Will.
Well, to give you a chance to give you actual answer, that
will get that ass to the chair to give you an actual
answer. I don't want to speak off-the-cuff and give you an
incorrect answer.
You.
You provided to Tri-Valley.
Thank you, chairwoman. Thank you everybody from CPS for
being here this evening. They answer these questions and
making sure when we were having the this public hearing
today. I think it's a marking of a start of a good year for
us and open Communications. I'm so appreciate everybody
being here with regards to stls. You just clarify for me to
all of the newcomer migrant students fall in this category.
I'm going to get a little bit more difficult here and not
super, because I don't like you. I just met you and you're
doing a great job. Holly Holderman Chico, is it has just
asking, you know, hopefully you can give us a little bit
more of a sense of how students are being tracked. I have
in particular, in my ward, the 9th District police station
is right down the street from my work office. There was a
bus that came yesterday or a couple days ago and took forty
to 40 people including 15 students were enrolled at Holden
Elementary School. Do my question really is is that I think
the family really like the stability of the school? They
like what was going on there and they're in a shelter.
That's I think on the North side, some place at a hotel and
they're wondering about what happens with their children
going to school so you can answer for me. What the process
is supposed to be, we can talk about later, like was
actually
Ending in what?
Ending in what way.
ending in what we
Ending and what resources, you can provide the US to in
order to help these families get some stability at least
for their children, by my colleague, in slide presentation,
Slide the section.
Not.
Not all new arrivals or stls some stay with families or with
their family or friends and they're not concern us kill us.
not a
Not all started, not all newcomers are considered us, still
us to some are staying with family members, so they're not
considered homeless.
Autumn.
Ottoman Hall.
That's a.
Back to the previous previous slide real quick.
Okay, so
quick question. Those are these same resources and maybe I
missed it, but I just want to clear the are these same
resources available at the cell phones for cheap for young
people that are in Chicago that are facing housing
challenges as well. The Venture cards, the some of these
are these available for all students as well. So these
results that I was thinking about are available for all
students. Apply Steelers, also not just newcomers gloss to
her. Thanks.
lights out on light is on and I thank you, Chad, just a
quick question because I looked at the stats and I saw that
we had a really huge jump and
stew.
students living in hotels and motels from 2022 to 23. Do we
have any background? Knowledge of how we've gotten more
than doubled from 2020 to 2:23 with families living in
hotels, or motels kind of expensive where in the city they
are primarily going or living in these hotels or motels
just any background around, that specific issue. That is
another great question that we can get that specific data
for you, will get that to the chair.
All the Persons of Interest.
Can.
Can you provide me some contacts to the data from 2022 to
2023? I'm just having a hard time understanding. How are
skls number has gone down with the amount of Migrant
students who have enrolled and, you know, the truck, I hear
you. They're not all stls. Do we know an overwhelming?
Majority of them are? I mean, we have families and shelter,
and a police stations that have enrolled, their young
people into schools. And so can we provide some context as
to how the number has gone down? Is it because of the
population loss and CPS? Well, I'm not going to speak at
the expert. As a matter of fact,
Look at it there.
Look at the theater right now from 2020 to you before last
2023. Last year. We don't have this year's data. We should
be 2024 data. So the with what you're thinking about, those
numbers will probably increase, but we can get more
specific. You'd like, if you have a more specific like
answer, like, how do we know? But it's just that right now,
these are numbers from 2023 from last school year. That on
the 20th, day will provide information on other person
about their Ward. So will send it all. If teach one of you
plus of the chair to send that also and check when we get
it broken down like this. If it applies to the word level
or you going to just do this aggravated. Cuz I think that's
something that we're all, we'd all be interested in their
data to move. I can promise right away. We can do that for
all 50 words, but will do it as fast as we can. Thank you.
I did.
I didn't.
I did not speak of a family is doubling out. They are
considered I feel as though I'm sorry. I also wants to know
that the influx of new arrivals is not new to the school
year, but we have had young people enrolling in school
since last Academic School year. So, some contacts to this
day would be helpful.
Autumn.
Ottoman.
Autumn essential Lopez.
Thank.
Thank you. I think it's a woman. My question in terms of
them, and I think that internal definitions, you know that
there's certain, you will agree that there's issues in
terms of even accessing the needs in the classroom. My
question around, you know, there are only four for the new
arrivals. But if you know what I need of all the students,
I see some numbers around, you know, they're being more by
lingo Staffing. You know, if I can sleep based on the
numbers, you know, you have an increase of stopping diverse
Learners positions, also bilingual endorse teachers, right?
What?
What kind?
What kind of what kind of support and what kind of funding
do we need especially for Charming from practices, right
that he that is in the extra support and again disease. I
mean we just hear you know, I mean to me the number of
children that on our house is just unacceptable when we
have about me to just currently thousands of kids that are
on the house. So in terms of the wraparound services and
extra support and I think some numbers in line but that is
an issue with having a crisis of mental health, among young
people, but also seen that it has to be support around.
You.
UniFi me.
You know, family mean on family room for practices you know
mental health it is it is involving the whole family. So I
want to learn a little bit more about what kind of
Investments are expected of a week and support. Because I
think that is key in terms of what the support for the
schools. So that's an awesome question doctor ass off and
then do the presentations. I think some of those questions
will be answered in the next two segments that we can come
back to the question. I will say this, we do need more
resources and a lot of this is, is our money talks with
Federal money mckinney-vento, intitle 3, which is the money
we did. I'm Advocate at the state level for additional
funding. It didn't happen yet, but we're going to go back
there and get a session and try again and hopefully you
know, city council help us get more resources navigate, but
I want a doctor's office then fell into do the
presentation. Then we'll come back to that question. Can
you all get through the chair?
I was.
All the supports for the sels students. Sometimes our
families don't know what supports of those uniforms are a
bunch of things that actually come with the service. And a
lot of times I don't some schools, hold it, some schools,
don't tell parents they are not sharing this hole through
the chair so that it goes to all 50, all them and we know
what those supports our. Thank you. One more question in
terms of the transportation and all that you have several
options. I think that we still
there's a
Pictures of some of our schools to see the remaining issue
transportation in general, right? So maybe those later on
the on the, on the presentation but definitely like to
discuss that the issues of transportation for CPS students.
I think we have a public transportation system. We should
be able to do more for cats to go to school.
Thank.
Thank you for those questions and I will now pass to my
colleague. Got a caramel sauce.
Thank.
Thank you.
So we wanted to share some numbers and some general
information and we will be glad to provide any more details
as you request them.
just,
Just as it was Cher married recently here in this, stays
the Chicago public schools have been enrolling students
from around the globe, for about a century or over a
century within are Chicago. Public schools are students
speak over 150 languages and we are working hard to
continue to keep the district as a leader in bilingual
education. Knowing that there is a lot of work to be done
to keep up with the needs of our students. We are
essentially School District in a sanctuary City.
An.
And would you do need to know that we do not track students
country of origin or immigration status?
I was.
I want to be clear about this the following number during
the Sy.
Twin.
23 school year with did enroll 5366 English learners?
And that put us 270 70395 students as English learner,
which is about 24% of the CPS population. I want to make it
very clear that the number that were providing
it's
Excludes existing students students near to CVS, newcomers
and migrant students.
I'm sorry, includes forgiven. So it is not that we received
5366 migrant students. It is that we received that number
of English Learners, many of them come from different
countries. So it's a combination of all the students
requiring English language support
so, during the month of July and August,
We have supported approximately 1500 students who are
residing temporarily at shelters and police districts to
enroll in school.
The.
The district has responded to changing needs of Migrant
families by adding mobile units to support enrollment. We
had created a really strong ictu CPS Partnerships that
we're City. You volunteers have, come on, enrollment
that's,
Sessions with us. A different police districts.
at the,
At this moment, we are actively working with 11 migrants
shelters that are operated by the SSS.
The next slide gives you a little more of an understanding
of how we Define newcomers in CPS,
So, while it can be an immigrant or air can also be a
non-immigrant student.
In.
International exchange students. Refugee students on a
competent man, minors. Asylum Seekers student.
The enrollment support involves the families, the city of
Chicago, the mayor's office resettlement agencies Community
organizations. As I shared it, says, nctu.
Newcomer students could be students living in temporary
situations or stls and they could, or could not be English
learners.
The.
The process for enrolling is as follows.
the office of
Len.
Language and Cultural education will receive notification,
which we called a manifest from a shelter or C PD or other
agencies of student arrival to Chicago.
The office works with network Chiefs.
Also work with principals.
To.
Houston.
To find the most appropriate placement for students based
on the location of where they're temporarily residing.
They?
The Criterion for selecting the schools is to have to the
extent possible support for English learners.
And the capacity to enroll older family members within the
same school.
Why?
One.
Once volunteers and deployed CPS and also the staff go to
the shelter or the police districts. We support their
families and completing the enrollment packets. And many of
them have walked with the families to schools.
To teach them the road to the school.
Then.
Then a parent or guardian and roles. The student dies, CBS
through a school Clerk.
and,
and then this to
And then the student is able to go to school or eligible to
go to school at 10 to CPS school, as they now have a CPS ID
and are officially enrolled.
The.
the enrollment Pathways next slide in as any other as the
other student, a migrant family has the right to walk into
school and request enrollment as you probably know, we do
have some schools that are overcrowded and that is the
reason why we are
You.
using all the data that we have available to ensure that
the students are being enrolled in schools, to the extent
possible, where there are English, learner services in
where we can keep the family unit intact.
So while the family can walk into a school, they can also
receive support as I share previously to a shelter.
See.
CVS, central office, enrollment through going. Sometimes to
the schools with a group of volunteers from sea to you or
volunteers, are our central office in Alstead deploy staff.
We?
We also have the Welcome Center which is housed at Roberto
Clemente High School.
in the
in doing this visits, the families have more wraparound
Services, which includes
linguist.
Linguistic academic academic, I'm sorry. Linguistic
assessment medical support with vaccines.
and,
And social emotional needs assessed by a social worker.
I'll
Along with a connecting the families to city services.
And that concludes my portion.
Call.
Questions from committee members. I actually have a
question. What support is given to the school?
So, we have, I had a school in the ward that turned away,
students. Because they didn't have somebody there, who,
actually spoke Spanish cuz these folks love the people
enrolling. Those students with Spanish-speaking, what's
support? Are you all giving principles and schools to make
sure that they are welcome in as possible and have support
for the newcomers? So we we have a formula by which we the
office of Language and Cultural education provides what we
called an English Learners program teacher. And that is it
goes as follows four schools that have from 20 to 100
English Learners. They receive a
Find five.
5 position for schools that have over 150 or more English,
Learners that they receive a full-time position and for
schools that receive that have over 600 English Learners to
receive two full-time positions. This
staff members are to dedicate their entire time during the
school day 2.
Coach teachers, secure resources, and support the school in
the children that are in the process of learning English.
and,
On the on the other on the side of enrollment for example
of principle today, had an issue that what you just
described. She emailed us in tomorrow. They will be a team
deployed to the school to support with enrollment. And this
is a group of students. I don't know if you're referring to
the same school or situation, but the city will have
students at a police district. And then when that family
transfers, somebody had that question before, when the
family transfer, the students will need a transfer prices
also,
In.
In what we're trying to.
In what we're trying to do is work with the individual
Behavioral Health teams at schools to create a process to
support the migrant children. The newcomers we enrolled in
another school so that that receiving school is waiting for
them. So what happened sometimes is that families that are
in the new locations goes straight to schools nearby, but
as soon as we are aware that they're there, we support them
with transferring and the prices that goes with that
transfer to ensure that the children are supported during
that and the Families 2
so,
So I'm so you're saying that in order to get any support
they have to have a number of students. So let's just say
if 5 students show up they get no support, the school
doesn't get anything. What we're trying to do is to
relocate the students to schools that have the English
learning programs, Psalms if the family walks into the
school and they state that they are stls, the school cannot
refuse enrollment but the district my office then helps
with a transfer to the school that would be appropriate.
and,
and that is,
And that is, as close as possible to where they're
temporarily residing.
Really.
Really doesn't make sense. So let me get this straight. I
live in this I'm in the police station at the Third
District. I'm new to this country is the only place. I know
I'm going to the nearest school which is in my ward is
feel. You're going to transfer me to another school in the
ward or close to the police. Was, remember, I'm a stranger
here. Yes. We're going to where we have the data for the
schools that are nearby. The different places where
students are residing
We were.
We receive manifest from the CSS to tell us how many
children are residing at the district, or even at the
airport and we know their ages, the schools that are nearby
that have the space and the ability is a family walks into
any school and they say they're STL as they will.
After.
I have to enroll them. However we have had meetings with
the network Chiefs and this Friday we're meeting again with
principles to let them know if that is the case. This is
who you should contact immediately so that we can transfer
the children to where they were going to be served. Now,
this is one thing that is
Very likely to have.
Very likely to happen deserve are these are families who
are going to be experiencing Mobility. So once you get to
either the airport police station you, then the city, once
they secure shelter in a more standard place, they will
move to any part of the city. I do not think that they are
aligning precisely with school at Tennant. And then after
that, they might, then again, one more time move to to
housing to maybe an apartment for six months. And then
again, they might move again. So we are expecting High
mobility and we're working internally with principals
Network. Chiefs counselors to ensure that we do our
absolute best to track the students and support their
transfers.
Do the share, can you send us a process? Because that it is
something I'm not calculating? That just doesn't make sense
to me. And so I would like to see it in writing through the
chair. So I can pass to my coworkers.
Yeah, and thank you for giving me this.
so,
So I want to clarify a couple of things and then yes, we
certainly have a crisis with with migrant families that are
coming up pretty much every single day. I want to clarify
that this part of when it comes to bilingual support has
been in has been provided to families for for many years. I
still remember that the principal in the Chinatown area,
getting a student from pretty much all over the city
because some of the schools didn't know how did supporters
as you mentioned in for Bengals were forced to swim in
Cantonese or Mandarin. What has created a little bit of an
issue for us? Is that how do we become efficient in?
Providing the services? One of the council members talk
about trauma-informed and how do we actually provide the
services to the schools? So that we don't have situations
in which schools have five? Students will have three
students, it's only do not qualify to have the person to
provide the services or the school's does not have enough
support. What happens right now is we providing some temper
support for
Support for the schools and I seen some of the questions of
the beginning of the public participation was, what about
those thing is trying to reroute the students to the
schools that have the best possible path. Supervisor
supposed to a student's the most challenging component
right now. Other women is it is a transitional process.
Meaning that the students while they're in the police
station weather in the shelters.
What's the temp?
Those are temporary.
Those are temporary situations.
Those are temporary situations for those students. Are we
trying to minimize Mobility? So we don't have control over
the students are going to go to. However, we're trying to
place the students together with the same family in so
many, many cases, even with the students that are already
familiar with to create an environment in which the
students and what we facing and when trying to create is
the students, feel like they're found a home in a place
that they can go home for a long time. Unfortunate. Like I
said, before we have lack of resources when is sore from
you in the council from the city, how to make sure that we
can provide those resources for students. So I asked that
question, because there's a school in my ward. The splitter
across the street from me, there on Durand Road and so I
can see into your CPS coming out there. That's cool. But
that's also a school, that's a black and light next door.
And so why is that not one of the schools that is being
chosen to save my grits that live within this range can
actually go to this school?
Ask.
Absolutely.
We will share with it, I'm sorry. Yeah, we would love to
connect with you and and ensure that that is happening. I
got the privilege to visit 22 schools in the first week of
of the school year in the washing one principle that asked
me to open enrollment into schools and what we don't want
is that these open enrollment accepting? A student is a
matter of budget know, it's not a budget is about providing
the resources and the support that the students need to
locate in those schools in front of the students, go to
places that the resources are already available. Resources
are not available, is a school that is under control. And
suddenly, we have an influx of Migrant families. Then we
can open a bilingual program in that particular School
trick with that is after the chief was mentioning, we can
give her school have a position full-time position. The
position doesn't necessarily help if we don't find the
person to feel that position,
We've.
We find.
we find a person to fill the position of Chief Felton.
We'll talk about this later. I also think we have to
provide professional development having a position number
having. Even if a person is not sufficient, I want to do
all the man's Mansion trauma-informed. Care, the
professional development needs to happen in the additional
resources that I need in the school with his counselor with
a social workers. So we trying to centralize this business
is not working as magic.
Lana.
Planet. Because the envelope is large, and the students are
going to different schools. Why we don't want also to
happen is that principal's I've been eyeing enrollment,
when the student come to the school is doing is an FD SD
else. Student is going to be enrolling at school while we
find the right placement. Is the school doesn't have the
resources. I want to see happen. Is you all to you and the
ottoman cuz we are the people on the ground that are
dealing with this on a consistent basis. And I don't want
to see young people laid up in the police station in the
middle of the day and we got plenty of schools that they
can go to all the women.
Thank you, turn.
Thank you to your woman. I'm just going to circle back to
my question earlier. I think we answered one side of the
equation with the question that the chairwoman ask just
real time at 2, I have every sympathy for everything that
y'all are dealing with his work. As older people, we're
dealing with all the other side of that was with people in
our Police District. I do think that when a family does
feel comfortable at a school that the worst thing that we
could do for those kids is to not allow them to go back
while they're in transition because that can be a stable
place. But my question still is, what are we doing? And I
know it's a very difficult task and I think that between
CPS in the city and the city absolutely needs to do a much
better job of tracking, where these migrant families are
where they're going to wear their enrolled in school. How
are we going to? Are we going to resolve this for the 15th
to do that?
timer 15 for
Timer 15 for today.
Timer 15 for probably 3 today that are in the same
situation. If they've moved around to a new shelter that's
been open and I know that on top of this we already have an
issue with Transportation but this is a this is a federal
mandate. So you know my question is what are we doing to
increase capacity? So it's the twofold question. Are we
going to do? We have resources today to create a bus route
for some of the shelters to take to take kids back to the
schools where they're already enrolled? And what are the?
What are CVS's plans? What are you doing? Currently to
increase capacity of bus drivers.
so,
So, you raise a good point again, Charles Mayfield Chief
Operating Officer. We're at a 52% capacity for bus drivers.
We normally have 1,300 drivers to service the district for
all students. The being that we're at 52%, we're not able
to provide services to all students and we made a tough
decision. You'll see this in my presentation, we made a
tough decision to prioritize. Our student population that
we will transport. In this case, for students in temporary
living situations, we provide them Ventra card. It doesn't
get Ventra cards. And if they qualify, we can also provide
the transportation.
Is.
is the
Is the fundamental issue.
Is the fundamental issue is that if we provide some
transportation in the mobility and creases, it puts us, at
risk of not being able to get students to school on time,
on time, one and then two, they will have longer route
times. We've done a ton ton of work to try to get route
times below, 60 Minutes, that is a mandated by the state.
And in this case, last year, we had at least over 3,000
students that were over 60 Minutes on the ride time. So
with them again with the mobility, right? It's very fluid
right now is very hard to give you a hard-and-fast answer
in regards to that. We will continue to look at it. Second
thing I want to point out as we're trying to increase our
driver capacity right now we're roughly around 672 drivers
again. I'll have it in my slide and so we need a part of
the numbers when we get to that point
We?
We've.
We've done a ton of Moore hiring fairs, we partnered with
the varsity Partners to be able to try to recruit more
drivers when we have hiring fairs reach out to the Alders,
to promote. Here's the hiring fair that we have for our
private transportation companies. The second thing that we
did is we just increase the driver rate wage. Second time
this year around increase the earlier last year, when the
average wait was between 20 to $25? Now we're at twenty-two
$27 on average so we hope that this that it'll get more
drivers in the door and hopefully retain those drivers as
well. Because as many as we see coming in, we see as many
going out.
will compete in the
We're competing against some of the marketplace. I mean, you
get you get your Amazon packages overnight, right? That
happens because those drivers don't want to transport
people anymore, they rather transport Goods. It what your
Walmart deliveries, I have a Walmart subscription. I get
that same day. I left these are where are these? Are the
places that these drivers are going so it's very hard to
compete in regards to that. And the bus driver position is
a part-time job. So it's a split shift, you got one of the
morning, the shift in the morning and ship in the afternoon
so it's not as attractive as these other Market positions
are
Thank.
thank you.
I mean, all I can share woman. Thank you for acknowledging
me. I want to go back to the experience for migrants in
schools. I want to give a short story need to ask you a
question yesterday. I was at Benjamin Mays, I've been on
tour, I'm just, you know, visiting schools in the wards
under now. So it's not so much Pomp and Circumstance in
as-is condition. It was a child in the 8th grade class, and
child was not engaged. And I'm thinking, you don't just
happen to a day, I get it. And then afterwards, I was
talking to the assistant, principal, by the way, they don't
have a principal and
she said to me, the child didn't gauge not because of a
lack of energy is because a child in understand,
Now, we quantify the language barriers to just Spanish.
When?
When I went to water is 3 years ago, twice at the height of
this. It wasn't just Mexicans come across the board are
Haitians the Africans in in, what is the dark? You are more
dangerous. It is in America, the dark you are more
dangerous is so what are we doing for the translators?
The.
That need to translate for none, Spanish-speaking migrant
children. That's one then, secondly, if we know where the
buses are taken migrants, I eat the police stations. Then,
is there a concentrated effort to put every translator
around the police station? Where the majority of the
students are going on a daily basis from the police
station? The first question again is this how many none
Spanish-speaking translators books and resources are
available? And then, secondly, does the plan include a
concentration of resources with the parameters? Are the
highest for my drinks with are staying temporarily and or
with a permit?
How?
Anybody.
So,
Do too. So there are in in terms of translators we talkin
about such, talk about human capital and resources, right
individuals to be translate is right. We can provide a cell
phone as a translator app that won't solve the problem. So,
I'm not telling you something that's going to say, okay,
that's going to be the solution, why you still dealing with
a human capital issue in this, on my call exposed to still
has fluid situation. So we are working adamantly to try to
solve these issues. So you have very specific questions and
say you know, this this this and we are working to do. I
do. Just to figure this out and place resources where they
are needed, but it is a very fluid situation. I visited the
police station myself, and it is, it's it's, it's not good,
right? But we are, I can honestly say that we are doing.
What?
What's?
Working at it.
Working at Supervalu resources where they need a soul. Is
this really the translators? Everywhere is really seem like
it's a human capital piece of ass. She have any translators
available to send out in situations like yesterday, right
to offer suggestions in front of the question that maybe we
should look at a pipeline especially with colleges, Chicago
State, be one of them the offer, so many different
languages is a part of different programs to be in pipeline
jobs were about either a, they can get credit for
translating other languages other than Spanish for students
as well as textbooks, as well as other resources because
again, Spanish-speaking is not just the only child that
showing up to school. So let's go back to Benjamin. This
child is in the school, the child there's no translator
there. She does not speak Spanish. What do we do? So does
this child continue to go to a school where they cannot
Any.
Anything.
Anything with students that will probably be bullying her
because they can't talk. And if you looked at the child,
they gave me flashbacks to the United, Methodist Church in
Juarez, where they were all in the corner for Nigerians,
who had no translator. They were afraid of situations,
where a student can't speak English situation, where a
parent can speak English but some way, somehow they're in
the school, what then do we do to the nun?
Speak.
Speaking. Not
Speaking on Spanish-speaking non-english-speaking student
and family that needs help. But yet somehow then his
classroom with clearly, they're not learning anything. So
do we take a shower without taking back to the with a
you-know-what residing? In this situation, I believe the
police station but I'm not sure. What do you take the child
out until the child to stay at at their place of a what are
residing until you are? Find them a space where they can
learn in their native language or do. The kids just stay in
school where they literally don't know what's going on.
That.
Got a nun. Spanish-speaking situation.
I see.
I think that goes back to the doctor s office. Earlier that
if it's a mismatch we tried her office, tries to manage to
a school where they will, the funeral be more comfortable
and be understood in. Thank you for that bro, and new phone
charged. So we, but in a situation like that where if let's
say they are residing for the same conversation on 71st and
cottage in the only school that does, this is on Sheridan
in Kingdom Come. So it's CPS position. Then we're going to
get you car service from 71st Street to Kingdom come in
every day, or is it? Good luck. We going to introduce you
to the school and get there everyday on the best way.
that's,
That's truly a great question if it works, I guess. That's
truly great question. We have to really look at situation
one by one. Could you raise a great point in terms of the
misconception? What we think about migrant students to Amir
to think about, just coming from South America, from
Central America, get to speak Spanish or Haiti? Yeah, their
kids are coming from many other countries. As Chief of
Staff, make some before that do not speak Spanish and we do
not have the resources in your Precinct. Obama go to school
for every single immigrants that come to our building. So
certain he's a fluid situation and thank you for the
recommendation about the city colleges is something that I
will race at our team because it's something about is his
number one insurance at the student. His is in the school
building. Number one, or number two, that they're receiving
the services cuz at the end of the day, I certainly don't
want a student to be in the corner cuz we are creating a
situation that is even worse. Not only, you're not
receiving their location, but you also traumatized by
either you class mates
Oh, baby.
Go by this.
Oh, by the situation itself, great point. We'll, we'll get
back to to, to the, to the chair with some possible
solutions because that's a great point and we don't have a
solution for every single immigrants that come through. Our
doors is is a fluid situation. I think has become easier in
some sections and what we think we have control of it then
suddenly we don't because families, move or families change
locations. For certainly is, is a, is a tough situation and
no Chief made Mayfield. Talk about transportation, for
example, in, but it doesn't help if the school to have the
service. If it's three hours away or two hours away, so
certainly would not be a solution. Is a full situation will
get back to the ship before we have over 150 home languages
speaking across CPS rape and world leader in bilingual
education went when this crisis. When this specific crisis
started and students were going to the suburbs. They
started sending the the students to CPS was, we're better
equipped.
and,
Handle.
Handle the students with the programs that we have. So
we're doing the best we can. We're obviously learning on
the Fly. It's not perfect. A lot to learn, we're learning
everyday. We learn more about how to do this. It's getting
better, but it's not perfect right now. Last question, is
there any efforts or budget line that? For example, if it
comes from Nigeria, their textbooks are in their native
language,
Today.
Through that effort to maybe import.
Curriculum and Native languages to where we are seeing.
There's an influx of none Spanish-speaking students. So
that even in the we're trying to figure it out, please,
we're still providing them with learning material. That's a
part of their native language. That is given to students as
a as a way to keep them engaged in their thinking and
learning. While we find them. Another school store, is
there any investment being made to get as much material
learning material? And language is that we are seeing are
consistently showing up through the intake process in
Chicago.
Why?
What?
One of the goals of the office of Language and Cultural
education is to enhance and increase the languages in which
we instruct students, we are really interested in by
literacy multilingualism and Multicultural education. So,
there are two different types of programs. They are three
different types of bilingual programs in in the width in
the Chicago, Public Schools. If you have 20 or more
students that speak the same language is a transitional
bilingual program. Transitional bilingual education in.
Require.
Requires in.
Requires in the primary grades to create a foundation in the
native language.
It is also has a component of SE of English as a second
language that requires that the students acquire English.
As as the years go by, we have a test that's go access that
assesses English language proficiency on students after 3rd
grade
Now.
Poor schools like were mentioned before where there are
less than 20 students. We also have programs, there are
many teachers in many schools who have ESL endorsement. So
that's English as a second language. And what they are
trained to do is they might have a classroom with 57 10
different languages in some parts of the city and the send
the skills and strategies they have are for children or
youth, speaking different languages, but they have the
ability to teach content.
In.
An ulcer.
And also teach English language acquisition or development.
So those those are the two different types of programs. We
also have dual-language programs, most of them because over
80% of the English Learners within CPS are
Spanish-speaking, most of the dual-language programs are
Spanish-English dual-language programs. So the students
don't transition out of native language, the students keep
their native language and they also add English to their
academic repertoire. We are exploring other languages, such
as Mandarin Arabic and
perhaps Ukrainian on other languages. That would also be
added to the district's language programs. We don't have
great concentrations of students from particular areas that
we could directly address in the way. I think that you are
meaning
We don't have.
We don't have that capacity so we don't have the capacity.
Thank you.
so through the chair I want to make sure that his question
was answered number of translators that we haven't CPS
number language that we actually are doing that work in
I would have been more you were next, but you stepped out.
We going to come back to you all.
Oh yeah, good evening. Thanks for all the shoes information
and thank you. Madam chair. Graduates of your first
meeting. How can someone tell me how early CPS gets
involved with following or during the intake process when
asylum-seekers come here?
Yeah.
Yes.
This bcbf Ss informs my office.
All.
All the number, the name ages of children in the family
unit. As soon as they have, that sense is completed.
It.
Are.
It was longer for police districts shelters. Have been
providing those lists to us since last year. So as soon as
we have a shelter of manifest from a shelter, we know
exactly how many members how many, children or youth are
within the family unit? We know their ages, so we can
determine their grade level immediately. We go into our
database, to look for the school with bilingual programs,
or support that are near whatever they are located yet,
shelter, Police District. It is, it takes us about two days
as we receive the Manifest, to send to send or deployed
teams to enroll students is getting faster. Now, in the
month of August was a lot faster and roll,
Was over 1,300 students during the month of August. And
that is because we created mobile units, to go to different
shelters. We have a coordinator that has a team that only
addresses Police District. So it takes about two days for
us to align location with schools.
The.
Does that answer your question? Next question is, is there
any Synergy between CPS and bfss that allows or that thinks
about placing these incoming students and communities that
already have the resources to support them?
Let's go.
In schools schools. So once we have again, I don't know if
it was, this is exactly what you're asking that. Once we
have the list of students, we have the data to, to assign
the schools. And then we consult with principles and we
consult with the chiefs of each of the networks. That where
will the students go after? Let's a police station. It's, I
think it's beyond what we have been able to work with.
I think we're getting there is. Can you offer some
commentary as to either why there isn't a plan to place
these children directly from intake into communities? That
already have schools that can support them? Or would you
offer a suggestion that could make that helped more
helpful? Make the process more helpful?
Do you?
It's usually the distance is, is usually the example on
something at the chairwoman said, if not a little bit
different. So we've got a new shelter at Lakeshore hotel at
49th and Lake Shore, South Shore, Shore Drive. Sorry,
and,
And that's primarily families.
I guess.
I guess the first question is, would it be more helpful if
somewhere between bfss and the shelter that the families
are actually placed in communities that already have
schools that are able to support the influx of
Spanish-speaking migrants? Just for this conversation, I
would have to say that the city makes a determination where
the shelters will be.
And the decision of taking family's to Lakeshore was made
over the weekend like CPS and bfss are not working together
to make sure that the placements particular were talking
about our young people. Write a children who are going
through a lot to get here. I think it, I don't think it
makes sense to put them through a lot to be here. The one
that moved put them in a community that where the
neighborhood school can support their educational needs and
then transfer them to another
In some cases have.
In some cases halfway across town at Ben serves, those needs
just want to make it just for the record. That is effective
agencies are there's a daily call. Everyone constantly
talking to another. I think it has to do with where there's
room to has the new arrivals. Then we have to place them
based on where their living right now. That's fine. I'll
add that. This situation has been fluid for two years at
some point. It's got to get static. Thank you. I think I
might be helpful for this conversation, has been felon or
cheap telling officer to just go through some of the staff.
Yes it is. I'm sorry. Once I get will you finish all the
more and to the staff? Especially Jamaica always being
responsive to our needs. And I wanted to say that publicly
I don't think we've had that opportunity in his hearing and
getting back to my office in a timely fashion, he does that
well and I appreciate that so much to mail. This is more
budgetary. So I have no, unless I'm wrong. This wasn't
budget for correct. And so what has been the impact to the
budget? If anyone knows that
Right now.
right now, I'm
Right now I don't we don't have that information right now.
We get back to the church. I know that I can tell you this.
Our next presentation will be on Friday and some budget
schedules in the line for that tonight. But our next
meeting with this committee will be on finance and budget.
So we will have that information available at the time that
time. Thank you Jen.
Thank you, madam chair, and thank you for putting this
meeting together. I just want to lift up one of our Publix
on public speakers comments about the collaboration between
the Chicago Park District in Chicago Public Schools. I
think that was a really valid point specifically on
extracurriculars and anytime we can pull money and
resources together in many instances, where is programming
that Chicago Park District offers right inside the school.
So I thought that was an excellent point that I want an
echo. Second, second point that I want to speak to come. I
think CPS has come a long way with early childhood and it
seems to be at once. I come in early childhood and I think
we've come a long way what I would like to see what my
constituents would like to say. I think what the city would
like to see is for offerings of not only 4 year olds, but
three-year-old full-day preschool, I think that
Something that we should be.
Something that we should be thinking about sooner rather
than later. I think this is this conversation today, really
speaks to new arrivals and and meeting people at their
place. The faster we get our children into school and
better. They're going to be the more productive they're
going to be. I'm so I would really like for there to be an
emphasis on all day, not have to hold a three year old
preschool for all. And when you think about the societal
factors that we're dealing with a with childcare and just
how much that cost and where would we be? Laughing alone,
financially off of our parents.
Tell.
So I think that's really, really important. And I want to
make sure that
I'd say.
I said,
I said that on the record. I also would Echo. What my
colleague from the 17th. Ward, send, Jamal and check. You
been fantastic. And for the new Alders here rely on these
two guys, they're great really good at what they do,
they're very responsive and so thank you. Madam chair,
thank you tomorrow. Thank you. Chuck it with the additional
state and federal resources for pre-k specially for
three-year-olds. I'll meet you hope to be able to improve
that service as well.
Thank you. All.
Sorry.
Good.
Good evening, good evening, chairwoman Taylor and committee
members. My name is Ben Felton on the chief down officer.
I'm glad to be here and looking forward to working closely
together in the months ahead to deliver for Chicago's kids.
While we have more work to do, we're really proud of the
progress that we've made and Staffing. Our school district
over the last few years, especially this summer, we have
more licensed adult, more licensed and qualified adults in
front of kids that aren't any point in recent history and
we're really proud of that. So you know, I'll be I'll be
quick. It won't read the slides to you but you know, we're
up close to Five Hundred Now. Features over this time last
year, that's driven largely by the number of special
education teachers that we have relevant to the previous
conversation. We have more bilingual and ESL teachers than
we've had in recent history and we also have more school
days.
Magic.
Education, support Personnel positions that are filled that
at any point in recent history, that means special
education, classroom, assistant teaching assistants SEL
support excetera. I would just point out briefly that the
Cornerstone of our strategy here, our talent strategy for
schools in the past CPA
It's been a.
It's been a passive consumer of the teachers at local
universities are essentially giving us, you know, both
graduate from school. We hire them. And we had done little
to actually ship the supply of people coming into our
district in the last 45 years. We've invested a lot of
resources and time on developing Pathways for people to eat
to enter the teaching profession, which has allowed us to
develop a supply of some of the most attractive candidates
to us, including teachers of color teachers, in high-need
subject areas, including bilingual, add and so, you know,
we have done a lot of work in the last few years to
actually shape the supply of candidates were coming and
getting to be teachers in Chicago. So you go to the next
slide. We have about four hundred eighty more teachers than
we did last year and that is you can see on the slide. This
is up considerably over the last several years. I would
know we're down about 50,000 students in this time, but our
looking for,
Force.
4C.
Force is 10% larger than it was five years ago. This slide
shows the impact of several critical Investments that this
Administration has made, including special education,
teachers counselors, bilingual teachers, and several
others, you know, critical positions in Investments. And
we've been able to make over the last few years. Did the
bottom line that we see in the town office is the people
want to work for CPS, and we're really proud of that.
we made the
We made the most significant progress in improving special
education, Staffing levels and we can read some of the key
strategies here. But this is a piece where the teacher
Residency program are our plan to employ people, while they
get our, our strategy that employs people, we pay them.
When you give them embedded training, they gets full salary
and benefits while learning in a CPS classroom like a
medical residency that has been a key lover here to
improving special education and bilingual Class Staffing
levels in so that group welcomed the class about 240
teacher residence in to CPS that group is 80% Black and
Latino as driving. A lot of the diversity numbers
improvements that we've seen over Latrice in history, we
also do a lot of work to subsidize the cost of an
additional licensure we've found. So, you know, again we're
up about 35%
In art, special.
In art, special education teaching levels over over 2017
and were up significantly more than that. With our special
ed classroom assistant, so we're really proud of that work
again are bilingual in ESL teachers, who continue to prove.
We are recruiting people but we are also subsidizing the
cost of a getting bilingual endorsements. First for staff,
who speak other languages are also expanding our
International teacher and again, our teacher Residency
program. We know we have great Baila.
People in the district we are, we are supporting them to get
teacher licensure and become the next generation of CPS
teachers. Again, we're up about 40% since 2018. And, you
know, one of the things that I am most proud of in an era
where we see fewer and fewer black and Latino people
entering the teaching field. CVS has managed to go in the
opposite direction here in 2017, 33% of our new teachers
were black or Latino the past year with 48%. So, in just
like 5 years, we went from about a third of our new
teachers being black or Latino to buy a half of our new
teacher thing, black or Latino 58% of our new teachers.
This year are teachers of color in it. In a time where
fewer and fewer people of color are choosing the teaching
profession. CPS we've been able to unlock people with deep
connections to our to our schools in appearance,
What's the?
Woodstock.
Wood staff.
Wood staffing.
Good staff members which is also helped us to reduce
recruit and develop a more diverse Workforce and you are
already seeing the impacts of that as we as we know, see
each one of these cohorts, matriculating, the retention is
higher there. They're deep in these are people with deep
connections to our school. They want to be part of CPS and
help us both with Staffing levels and also our diversity
in. And we know the representation matters. The researchers
are abundantly clear that having a future color is critical
for
What's wrong?
Rocket black Latina white excetera. So we are very proud of
the progress. We've made in that front now while we've made
good progress. Next. Like, what we've made good progress,
there is still a lot of work to do. We still have teaching?
Vacancies, there is a national shortage. We are not immune
from that. So we are continuing to grind. Very hard to
recruit as many teachers as possible. We typically recruit
five or six hundred over the course of a year. So we're
continuing to do that. We continue to have school based
education staff, vacant positions and we are actively
recruiting for that. We talked about bus drivers as one
critical area that we are recruiting for continue to work
with my colleague Mayfield will speak in a minutes around
school-based staff. Custodians bus ain't excetera
increasingly our strategy has been to get out into
communities and recruit in neighborhoods. That's what we
want to be doing. So in a, we've had successful recruiting
events with different Alderman around the city. I'm here
saying that we would like to continue that. We are, we
Tired.
Ireland.
Tireless. A recruiter sole purpose is going to be being out
in the field. I'm to recruit either for you. No teaching
job substitute teaching. Jobs are also some of the
operational bases that are really important. So, yeah, we
are, Choco, Choco tell you that I am eager to get out of
into all of your boards and, and into your office isn't
helping recruit staff from all around the city, and I'll
lock their questions and happening.
What's the?
Buses from the committee. Just read that article earlier
today about police officers, getting additional support for
the the psychological stress that they are under. Are there
any place for the teachers that are already that are
returning to give them support for those difficult moments?
In classrooms? Were, there is some difficulties merging
culture and just the different Dynamics with new students
in the arrivals together. So, are we are their plans in
place to support teachers to allow them to continue to
teach healthy. Yeah I would just say a couple things look
and we take teachers and working conditions very seriously
and we get feedback from our labor Partners to get feedback
from others. About how important that is. We had a robust
set of employees work for people who are dealing with, you
know, any psychological issues, whatever. You know, we are
eager to support me to connect people with those Sports.
We've done a lot of work to make those
If it morphed.
If it's more affordable, more streamlined for people, I
would condemn as a former teacher I would contend that one
of the most important things we can do is just add, make
sure they're getting reinforcements additional staff in
buildings because that shares the Wellwood across multiple
in a licensed professionals. We we do have a robust set of
support something that we are very proud of. And, you know,
we were continuing to work alongside our partners at the
union to build.
Make.
Make sure.
Make sure that everybody has the support they need. Look,
I'm not going to sit here and say Burbank because you know,
anybody who's been in the school, the last two or three
years through this pandemic, cuz, you know, we see a lot of
burnouts, you know. Her that. Well, our retention rates
have been pretty darn strong over the course of the
pandemic. It doesn't mean it's easy. We know, it hasn't
been easy. And so that's one of the reasons we prioritise
expanding go support for employees.
I want to.
I want to be respectful respectful of everyone's time and
especially the junior Vice chair. I'm Charles you wanted to
do the transportation slide in the next meeting and come
back into operations, but just do the transportation for
now. Please, thank you for the problem. So jump into the
hot topic of Transportation. So this is where our district
and many others are experiencing bus driver. Shortages is
not just with K to 12 school districts. It's also, you
know, with the private sector is also with our colleagues
at the Chicago Transit Authority and I know they've put
some some medications in place, like they're doing the
hiring bonus of $1,000. In their average pay rate is
starting at $30 an hour or so. I just want to make sure
that people understand this is a national bus driver,
shortage exists. Not a CPS problem is a national problem
with that is been extremely difficult to provide
transportation for all qualified students and typically are
qualified students about 5% of our population.
Episodic start of school year. We were operating at 52%
capacity for bus drivers and the district needs 1300 bus
drivers to transport. All qualified students, the board of
men at the transportation policy in 2022 to prioritize. Our
most vulnerable students which are diverse Learners and
students in temporary living situations. And what we've
done thus far to try to mitigate the driver shortage. I
mentioned earlier as we've increased, our recruitment
efforts with our city partners and we've increased our
driver pay from an average of 20 to $25. Now, it's $22 to
$27 and this is the second increase within the year.
so,
So, our data displays an increase in the verse learner,
ridership year-over-year, where we also have over 700
diverse Learners that qualified for transportation this
year compared to last year. So you see an increase in
diverse Learners and then you're also seeing a decline in
our driver account. It was 672 at the start of the school
year compared to last year at 692. So by prioritizing the
most vulnerable students, we are transporting over 6,000
students right now with an average travel time for diverse
Learners at 28 minutes and 47 diverse Learners with travel
times, over 60 Minutes last year, we were over 3,000
students with travel times that exceeded. 60 minutes. This
is a
Improvement.
Improvement significant Improvement, next lot. So families
impacted by the board policy change that they have
alternative options. So we are given options. We're not
saying that you can't have transportation, you can just
have transportation within the different way. And in this
case, the family is a diverse Learners families. Have an
option to receive up to $500 a month based on attendance to
self transport. Their child, wear payment is issued on a
monthly basis at the reside in school and the forms are
available on our website. Cps.edu / transportation in for
the general education. Families that have been impacted the
more significant lead in diverse Learners. They have the
option to receive the Ventra card for the student and one
companion cuz we also put safety in mind for that and the
cost is covered by the district. So we work with CTA to get
a reduced rate fare card. And so, again at providing, not
only for the student but for one companion as well. All the
Venture cards
that there was a
That they reside in school and families can sign up at the
school and the turnaround time to get that Venture Card has
to cook it within the week with that. That concludes my
presentation. I'll turn it back to the chair for any
questions so I'm going to start to say when it comes to
special needs student transportation. They do send you that
$500. So I'm a living witness. They do not going to say
it's enough depending on how far you live from the school
is on my son, went to school on the opposite end.
Where we?
Where we lived and be.
Where we lived and because he was not ready, I was not ready
for him to be on CTA that wasn't an option for us. So I'll
say thank you. But they're also needs to be a real
conversation between you all ncta about making a CPS
students and families free. But just be honest, there are a
lot of students who don't show up to school for that very
basic needs. And so I had this conversation with the chair
of CTA president Duvall and I want to home public work to
say, I want you all to coordinate. A lot of times these
things don't work, cuz we will working in silos and so I
want us to see us to do that work together on and I also
had a conversation with him about safety for CTA student.
Parents don't feel comfortable with just standing at the
bus, stop with their kids on the bus and hopes that when
they get to the stop that they're supposed to get off of it
safe and so I want us to have a real conversation around
that my share play.
Thank you for bringing that up. So I want me because that
$500 is an integral part of our babies. Getting to school.
I am the aunt of to specially needs nephews and my sister,
she's not going to get mad at me for telling her business.
My sister hasn't had an issue with just the reimbursement
timeline, right? So the $500 is great, but if she's not
getting it until two to three months after it is time.
put their
Put their family.
I put their family in a very tight Bond because she has to
come out of pocket to pay someone else to take her babies
to school and she doesn't have that cushion. A lot of our
parents don't have a cushion for $500 a month. So is there
anything that we can do as a city to get that timeline and
make sure that they are getting it every month on a
consecutive basis so that they can allocate for that. So,
we looked at this with the internal team, the the checks
are cut
Who.
Who arrived at the school by the 15th, we use USPS. So
there may be delays in regards to that, but if I can get
the information of what they're experiencing, so we can
follow up cuz what I'm hearing up on. Most cases in most
cases, these are isolated issues, may not so much a global
issue so he can share that information with me. I love to
follow up with. You have to say since the program started
last year old to be here all the time right on the
complaints on that has gone down a lot. So I think the
team's doing a lot is a perfect, probably not, but they're
doing a lot better job that it reduced the Cadence of
damage checks out.
What are we doing to?
What are we doing to support gifted students. So, I'm
getting complained about gifted students. Being able to,
they used to go to their neighborhood, school to get the
bus to pick him up and they no longer have that Services.
How? And I feel like it's a punishment for young people who
tested into those schools and actually make it. So can you
explain to us what the district is doing? To make sure we
accommodate those gifted students.
So again, we haven't cancel Transportation, it's just
providing an alternate way. And so in this case, if they
qualify, then they would be eligible to receive the Ventra
card for both the students and then one companion. And I
just want to go back to you earlier Point. We've engaged
ETA. So your point on free Transportation, if in a perfect
world I would love that as well. I know CJ has some
budgetary constraints that we, I can't necessarily speak to
but we've had the conversation. Put that on the table to
see what we can be better Partners in order to resolve this
Transportation issue. So, thank you for that. The second
piece, I'll turn to my colleague here, where there has been
experienced issues with transportation, we have tried to
beef up, you know, out-of-school-time programs in
alternative my colleagues speak more about that.
with the
With that piece. So schools, that qualifies gifted and
magnet. So they received in addition to the
out-of-school-time to CSI fun that they already have. They
qualify for additional OST funds for before and after care.
So it's kind of like extending the time. So, as soon as I
arrive at 6 because my mom is dropping off at 6, there is
Do.
Dobson to do that there. And then stay after school with
little longer, then I'll get you today. We can partner with
human agencies that are CPS vendors that provide that
support as well. So those schools do receive out of school
time, funding, the funding should be going out now. So
there is that opportunity for those schools to have that
option to support this family as well. Also raised up some
of the families are doing. I've heard from different older
people about different carpools going on in wars and
getting students to school. I just want to pull those
parents for having initiative to do that on their own to.
It's been remarkable to see if we appreciate the help or
can you get us the information so that we're sending it out
to our constituents cuz I don't, I sometimes feel like that
they don't they don't have the information or when they go
to the store. They're just told transportation is not
available and that's it for families, which is why we're
getting an influx of questions anymore questions for me.
Lowlife Jack? Why you don't got nothing but there being no
further business. Can we make a motion to adjourn the
meeting?
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favor.
Monopoles meeting's, adjourned. Thank you for coming to the
first committee on education and child development.