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Education

Great cities prepare the next generation.

The future of Chicago is inextricably linked to our youth and the success of our schools. Education prepares our workforce, strengthens families and communities, and brings intellectual vitality to everything we do. Our ability to prepare all of our youth for the future says a lot about who we are and what we want our future to look like.

We advance high-quality education and equitable access to opportunity for all Chicago students to prepare them for lifelong success and fulfillment. We focus on:

  • High quality learning experiences
  • Equitable distribution of resources
  • Connectivity across the continuum
  • Strong strategy and operations

Project Highlights

November 15, 2020
Classroom 3
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Standing Up the Equity Working Group for Black Student Access and Success in Illinois Higher Education

Illinois is failing to ensure equitable postsecondary educational access and outcomes for Black students. Our ecosystem enrolls, graduates, and employs Black students at far lower rates than non-Black students. In fact, only nine out of 100 Black students starting high ...
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August 15, 2020
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Chicago’s Young People Give Back through the Chicago Youth Service Corps

Our City’s youth have acutely felt the tremendous social impact of the COVID-19 crisis. With classes, sports and music events, graduation ceremonies, and summer programs canceled, teens and young adults missed many milestones they would typically enjoy in the spring ...
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July 6, 2016
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Case Study: The Reinvention of City Colleges of Chicago

Challenge For many low-income Chicagoans, education and training is the path to a better life. But by the middle part of the last decade, the City’s community colleges had lost a step. Enrollment had fallen from 200,000 to 115,000 in less ...
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