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Sender: Rahm Emanuel
Sent: Wednesday, August O5, 2015 7:27:48 PM
Recipient: Forrest Claypool <
Subject: Fwd: Meeting on 8/13
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From: "Koldyke, Mike"
Date: August 5, 2015 at 10:42:44 AM EDT
To: "fc-private~a,cps.edu" , "jkjacksonna,cps.edu"
Cc: "emanuel.rahm(cr~,~mail.com" , "dfeinstein(a,auslchica~o.or~"
Subject: Meeting on 8/13
We look forward to seeing you on August 13. Don, Jarvis and Michael will give you a punchy, yet
brief summary of the very significant progress that has been made in the 27 elementary schools and
4 of the high schools that AUSL operates. There is no doubt that Chicago is a better place because
of this endeavor. Our team will also cover the vital work being done by AUSL in recruiting and
training AUSL Residents for teaching in CPS's most demanding schools. Yet, much remains to be
done in failing level 3 schools, and the AUSL team will set forth how best to begin this restoration
process for the next 50 bottom tier elementaries.
Second, here is an idea for you to carefully consider. While not a new idea and not for our
discussion on the 13~', it's timely and merits your consideration. The CPS effort that created
selective enrollment schools and scores of charter high schools has left parts of the City with
neighborhood high schools that are under populated and with kids whose ability to read and
compute were never adequately developed in elementary schools. It's the view of some leading
Chicago educators including Alan Mather and Jarvis Sanford that it's not wise for a city to skim off
virtually all of the abler, better educated students and move them to selective enrollment schools or
charters leaving neighborhood schools with only those children most deprived. There exist some
progressive model high schools where in addition to the kids whose scores rank behind, some
students are enrolled in International Baccalaureate (IB) programs or sma11 selective enrollment
programs. AUSL's Solorio Academy High School should have an IB program so as to attract
stronger students to its mix. Moreover, AUSL's Wendell Phillips High School should definitely
have a selective enrollment quorum for, say, 75 to 80 students thus providing a mix of more
accomplished students with the rest of the student body.
CP5 needs to reorganize some of its neighborhood high schools. CPS should close a number of
them, consolidate, and seek enrollments between 1,000 and 1500 students. Each neighborhood
high school should have an IB program or a modest selective enrollment program to achieve a
balance of student abilities in the mix.
We realize that Forrest recently stated to retain the non-school closure approach. We understand.
But we believe and we suggest that in the 2016-17 school year a selective program of consolidating