In Chris Sweda’s article,”As CPS schools empty: Mayor Emanuel, don’t let this crisis go to waste”, he informs the audience how CPS schools are actually still in debt. Sweda validates how elementary schools are closing left and right in the chicago areas and that's including the school system being still in debt with teachers pensions. Mayor Rahm Emanuel doesn't want to mislead teachers, union leaders, and parents on the perception of how he believes educations is the most important key factor of keeping CPS schools running. Mayor Emanuel believes in downsizing classrooms to decrease the money of these half vacant CPS and move the students to better safer schools. It does not make sense in the eye of the Mayor to keep these low populated …show more content…
How can a CPS student learn when their city of chicago is at an all time high of crime activity. Students walk home everyday, to and from schools in these neighborhoods that we watch take countless young educators from chicago's gun violence. Mayor Rahm Emanuel can move these schools into safer environments where these students are being monitored and are able to concentrate on the life goals these young educators strive to work for. Mayor Rahm states in the article, “Have I ever rested on anything?”. The Mayor directed this quote to trust him. He knows these young lives are important to all of us because they are our future and Mayor Emanuel will not let these students lose their education because of a city they live in. This will allow the Mayor to eliminate more vacant schools in CPS but, allows Mayor Rahm Emanuel to potentially rejuvenate the CPS that these students transfer …show more content…
Mayor Emanuel plans on closing these schools to save the budget of CPS and to save the graduation rates. The Mayor is pushing CPS Grads to create some sort of ‘plan’ to give CPS students to better educate themselves on which degree they are heading for. Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated,”"If you change expectations, it's not hard for kids to adapt". Mayor Emanuel believes planting a seed in these young educators heads of long term goals, and having Graduates with degrees assisting them in new CPS programs, is the right way of making these students trust the new process of rebuilding these Chicago Public Schools and the CPS graduation rate. Although, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is dealing with financial issues for CPS, the Mayor is looking towards ‘CPS Grads’ to be apart of these programs because it may not be costly at all in exchange for community hours. The crisis the Mayor is really attacking is he wants these CPS students to receive the best education they can get no matter what community these students are
As Saskatchewan goes into a more detrimental deficit, the provincial government is starting to look for possible ways to regulate this shortfall. Alongside of raising taxes and other expenses, Premier Brad Wall has decided to make budget cuts to the education sector. Although it may benefit the province, plenty of students and teachers will have to suffer for it to do so. Teacher’s spend their own money when it comes to classroom supplies, and put more effort in their job than most other professions. By Saskatchewan’s government cutting the budget for education, there will be a shortage of job opportunities for recent graduates, a lower graduation rate for students, and an unsustainable wage for teachers.
Furthermore, Mr. Baraka and his counterparts are hopeful that once they receive full control on furthering the educational system for traditional and charter schools in the inner-city area that there will continue to be an increase in the overall state grades that determines if the schools will continue to receive a substantial amount of funding to help these inner-city kids further their education. Baraka stated, “that once the transition is complete, the city will have learned its lesson (Chen,
Amanda Ripley, the author of “The Case Against High-School Sports”, made many good points that can create much controversy when it comes to high-school sports, due to the cost and the academic problems it may be creating amongst the students. She interviewed many people who have experiences banning high-school in order to save money for their school district and the school itself. Ripley wants to bring into attention all the money that is used on high-school sports when districts tend to use a minimal amount on academics. I have come to an agreement with her point-of-views due to several reasons: sports are the main focus of any high-school that may have sports, the tax money being provided to the school district has been used on sports than
George F. Will argues that the city of Chicago is at a turning point in its history and that the upcoming mayoral election will determine whether the city continues on a path of decline or begins to address its long-standing issues in his article "NATIONAL COLUMN: Chicago voters must choose further decline or a remedy for an ailing city." The urgent need for leadership and action to confront Chicago's ingrained problems, like crime, inequality, and economic stagnation, is the article's core focus. Will contends that years of disregard and poor management have made the city's issues worse and that a leadership change is required to stop the decline. Will provides numerous examples and research to back up his claims. For instance, he mentions
LITERATURE REVIEW #1: The Prize In the book, The Prize, written by Dale Russakoff discusses the issues urban schools face with the limits of money and a top-down approach in how to run the schooling system. The book is based of Newark schools, and starts off with New Jersey politicians Cory Booker and Chris Christie who are troubled with the $100 million pledge from Mark Zuckerberg to transform the Newark school. Money is limited to reform education, even more so with the top-down autocracy of the locally elected officials who are not allowing reform to take place. The book further describes the situations in the Newark school, with the problems of poverty and violence at the forefront of it all.
How would you choose to fix Chicago? What would you do? These drawn out questions proliferate the minds of everyone in this city. A city where gun violence is commonplace, poverty strikes down countless families, and public high school students would be lucky to attend college. Only until I entered adolescence did I realize I was among this population; I grew up in a neighborhood abundant with these traits, and most of my peers at school come from some form of wealth that save them and hide them from these traits one can only experience to truly understand.
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Primer for Social Workers, a study by Susan McCarter (2017), was written to give a summary of the School-to-prison pipeline in an attempt to break down the factors surrounding children being funneled into this path by their respective school systems around the country. The author explains the correlation between the School-to-prison pipeline and its disparate outcomes for students of color, students with disabilities, and students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (p. 54-55). McCarter presents implications for social workers and multiple specific strategies to reduce the detrimental effects of the School-to-prison pipeline. Susan McCarter, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor
Basing school funding on property tax leads to unequal opportunities and environments for students, even though the government may claim it is not up to them, there needs to be a drastic change. Currently, taxes collected from the surrounding communities fund public school districts. Public schools get financed mainly by the property tax of the surrounding houses. “Resources available to school districts relied heavily on local property wealth, and property wealth per pupil varied greatly, as it continues today”
One night, during the cold winter, I walked along the side walk to reach the local store down the block. As I walked out, before I can realize it, I was dropping down onto the concrete while bullets swiftly passed me. I then began to run back home, but I wanted to keep running. Away from Chicago, away from the west side. Growing up in Chicago, it was easy to assume that there was nothing different beyond the blocks of my streets.
Finally, the school board is worried that this funding and jobs from this program will take away from other school district. This is a non-starter; it was stated that the funding would be private funding. So therefore, the school district can’t rob Peter to pay Paul, they should see this funding as a gift
Many schools in chicago like Waukegan only get 12,000 dollars a student (To see divide between rich schools and poor, look to Waukegan and Stevenson), which again if there are 500 students that would only be 6 million dollars for all of the things students need,
Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, says" The idea that you are going to actually have a post- high school educational plan, and all of a sudden, we're putting a burden on our kids backs. " I disagree with Rahms Plan because kids are being forced to do something they may not want to do, everyone do not have money for college, and CPS is already having trouble with funding.
There is a lot of benefits from increasing public school funding. Also, there are also negative aspects of this situation. “25% of taxpayers money goes to education” (policy basis , 5) .Taking more of tax payers money
Obama (2012) said, "This job of keeping our children safe, and teaching them well, is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community, and the help of a nation." Therefore, trying to help America as a whole would require a large number of people, but we can make our school safe. It is a small step toward a safer education. There have been many tries to make schools safer, yet we still hear about new ones weekly. It has devastated so many families.
The reading for this week discusses our biases upon entering into the educational system as future teachers. One bias that is presented is that the city remains separate from academic discourses. This idea is further emphasized in the following statement. “Schools educate communities; they do not, as a rule, learn from their communities.” My question then is why?