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Rury, John L. “Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago’s Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education.” History of Education Quarterly 39#2 1999, pp. 117–42. online; Sanders, James W. The education of an urban minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833–1965 (Oxford UP, 1977) online; Shipps, Dorothy.
The school board, known as the Chicago Board of Education, is currently appointed by the mayor of Chicago. Between 2024 and 2027, the board is slated to transition to consist entirely of elected members. [65] [58] The board traces its roots back to the Board of School Inspectors, created in 1837, which was renamed Chicago Board of Education in ...
Chicago High School (active 1856–1880; demolished 1950) was the first public high school in Chicago, Illinois. After several abortive attempts, the Chicago City Council approved a high school in 1855. John M. Van Osdel and Frederick Baumann designed the building, which opened the next year. In 1860, the coursework was organized into two ...
The 2024 election will be the first time in Chicago's history that the city will hold a school board election. [14] Per the legislation, in 2026, the number of electoral districts will be increased to twenty, and an election will be held for the Board of education members from the ten new districts without incumbents. [12]
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
An August 27, 2015 article by the Chicago Tribune refers to the Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools as the largest private school system in the United States. [1] A wave of school closures after the 2014-2015 school year caused over 200 employees to change jobs and over 1,200 pupils to change schools. [2]
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Ella Flagg Young (January 15, 1845 – October 26, 1918) was an American educator who served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools.She was the first female head of a large United States city school system.