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Proposed School Actions: Impacts on Students Josh Radinsky & Federico Waitoller University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education April 10, 2013 DATA SOURCES: CPS media briefing document dated 3/21/2013, obtained from CPS Deputy Press Secretary Molly Poppe on 3/28/2013, downloaded from http://www.cps.edu/qualityschools/Documents/briefing.pdf Illinois State Board of Educations School Report Card data for 2011-12 (the most recent available), download form http://www.isbe.net/assessment/report_card.htm The scale of the impacts on students of the school actions being proposed by CPS has been underestimated by more than 50% in statements from the Board of Education and in the press. CPS announced 54 school closings, 11 school co- locations, and 6 school turnarounds (CPS media briefing, 3/21/2012), estimating that approximately 30,000 students would be impacted by these actions (Chicago Tribune, 3/22/2013, p. 1). These numbers greatly underrepresent the impacts of the proposed actions in terms of numbers of both schools and students impacted. We identify three kinds of possible impacts of a school action. Of the 133 schools involved in the proposed school actions, these impacts will be felt in different combinations by different schools, depending on the specifics of the move. The data table below specifies which schools will be affected by each of these 3 impacts. 1. Relocation of students would occur under three circumstances: Students from most Closing Schools are proposed to relocate to a Receiving School. However: In 14 of the proposed Actions, students and faculty from the Receiving School would relocate to the building of the Closing School. In the 8 Co-Locations that do not involve a new school, students would be relocated from one Co-Locating school to the other. Relocating students from 60 schools would be impacted by the loss of the existing school community; the challenges of adapting to a new school community; having to negotiate new routes to school; and disruptions to relationships, services, and learning processes in place at the current school. (see NOTES below on this category of impact) 2. Receiving students (who have been relocated from another school) Students already enrolled in the 65 schools receiving new students would be impacted by the redistribution of school services and resources; disruptions
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caused by adapting to the influx of new students; and changes to the school community and relationships. Administrators, faculty and staff would be impacted by the workload of programming for, and accommodating, the incoming students and personnel; and revising service provision models in place for students with special needs (IEPs, LRE accommodations) and response to intervention processes. 3. Dismissing Faculty 58 schools would dismiss some or all of the schools staff, faculty, and/or administrators. This would occur under two circumstances: Closing Schools and Turnarounds. Personnel dismissed from schools would be impacted by the loss of their job, and the loss of their relationships with colleagues and students, except for those who are rehired at a Receiving School. Students whose teachers are dismissed would be impacted by the loss of the relationships with those adults, disruptions to their school community, and disruptions to their learning processes and services being provided. Although these data are from last school year (2011-12), the numbers of students impacted are reasonable estimates, because enrollments have not changed dramatically from 2011-12 to 2012-13. For example, traditional CPS public school enrollment declined by only 1.47% from 2012 to 2013, and some of the impacted schools enrollments actually increased this year. Current eighth grade students from these schools will not be directly impacted by the closings next year, except to the extent that the impacts already being felt this year affect their school experience, or if they enroll in one of the eight high schools impacted. However, the incoming students who replace them in the student bodies of these schools will experience most of the stressors caused by relocation, even though they have not attended the school before. For example, the disruptions to the school community caused by replacing personnel, the physical move, and the need to reprogram the entire school will impact the provision of services even to new kindergartners. Thus the total numbers of students impacted is likely to be very similar to the numbers calculated here.

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IMPACTS: Total students enrolled in impacted schools (2011-12): 47, 490 Of the total students to be impacted, 7,175 are students with disabilities, each of whom has an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP). o These students stand to be most severely disrupted by the relocations and personnel changes, given the nature of IEP specifications for provision of the least restrictive environment and specialized services. o Three of the schools impacted by these actions (Buckingham, Montefiore, and Near North) are specialized elementary schools serving 100% students with disabilities. Of the total students to be impacted, 38,326 (or 81%) are African American students. This number represents 23% of all the African American students in the district (total African American student enrollment in 2012 = 168,126) o SOURCE: http://www.cps.edu/about_cps/at-a- glance/pages/stats_and_facts.aspx In fact, the African American elementary school students who would be impacted by the proposed school actions (n=34,946) represent approximately 27% of all African American children living in Chicago between the ages of 5 and 14, based on 2010 US Census numbers (total African American population ages 5-14 in 2010 = 127,473) o SOURCE: US decennial census data, 2010 census 100% survey, variable T20 Age, Black or African American Alone, age ranges 5-9 and 10-14 (downloaded 4/9/2013 from http://www.socialexplorer.com; also accessible from http://factfinder2.census.gov)

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NOTES: 14 of the schools that are closing are not leaving their building, but are having another school relocate into their building with them -- marked with "@" in the CPS briefing document, e.g., "@ Altgeld" (we did not include these 14 schools as "Students relocating to" in the table below): ALTGELD MAY BANNEKER MAYO DELANO PERSHING MIDDLE DUMAS TECH ACAD RYERSON GOODLOW SEXTON HERBERT STOCKTON LAWRENCE WILLIAMS (Elementary and Middle) ... and there are 14 "welcoming schools" that are actually relocating into those 14 closing schools' buildings (we did include these as "Students relocating to"): BURNHAM MAYS COURTENAY MELODY DETT PERSHING DRAKE WADSWORTH EARLE WARD, L FISKE WELLS, I LELAND WENTWORTH There are also 10 schools among the co-locations that appear to be slated to have students from another school join their building (we included these in "Students relocating to"): BOWEN HS MARSHALL MIDDLE CORLISS HS MORTON CRANE TECH PREP HS NORTHWEST GRESHAM O'TOOLE HOPE HS REVERE Then there are 40 other schools into which closing schools are relocating. Thus the total tally of "Schools relocated to" is 65 in the list below, but an argument could be made that the number should be 79 (counting the first category above). Having unfamiliar students enter your building (category 1), and having unfamiliar students join your student body and faculty (category 2), are both forms of receiving new students, which impact the children in these schools.

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School name Level Students relocated from Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Students relocated to Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Faculty dismissed from Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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enrollment 2011-12 516 96 272 293 590 375 414 629 375 350 492 347 39 285 329 223 640 378 529 234 283 438 206 262 670 238 524 237 501 843 504 416 252 358 362 432 238 540 383 # IEP # African Amer 511 94 272 292 584 364 398 10 374 349 396 266 38 283 326 204 6 376 8 224 277 18 199 25 657 42 502 232 490 89 479 407 248 342 31 429 231 534 379

ALTGELD ARMSTRONG, L ATTUCKS BANNEKER BARTON BASS BEETHOVEN BELMONT- CRAGIN BETHUNE BONTEMPS BOWEN HS BRENNEMANN BUCKINGHAM BURNHAM CALHOUN CANTER CARDENAS CARTER CASTELLANOS CATHER CHALMERS CHAPPELL CHGO TALENT CHTR HS CHOPIN CORLISS HS COURTENAY CRANE TECH PREP HS CULLEN CURTIS DE DIEGO DE PRIEST DELANO DETT DEWEY DISNEY II DODGE DRAKE DULLES DUMAS TECH ACAD

ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM HIGH ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM HIGH ELEM HIGH ELEM HIGH ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM

64 28 42 40 67 44 64 81 74 31 122 49 39 23 59 28 75 44 72 39 29 83 46 38 162 64 152 37 53 97 90 35 44 50 33 47 56 68 56

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School name Level Students relocated from Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Students relocated to Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Faculty dismissed from Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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enrollment 2011-12 113 336 369 464 508 204 219 231 481 204 356 270 285 416 330 366 527 333 481 264 276 372 600 318 423 317 312 365 363 302 271 429 442 405 372 178 575 396 248 450 # IEP # African Amer 31 333 356 462 502 204 217 228 476 196 352 264 284 408 327 363 524 277 473 262 274 352 595 311 411 310 305 360 361 288 202 427 147 403 346 175 484 389 248 13

DUPREY EARLE ELLINGTON EMMET ERICSON FARADAY FERMI FISKE FORT DEARBORN GARFIELD PARK GARVEY GOLDBLATT GOMPERS GOODLOW GREGORY GRESHAM HALEY HARTE HARVARD HEFFERAN HENSON HERBERT HOPE HS HUGHES, C HUGHES, L JACKSON, M JENNER JENSEN JOHNSON KEY KING KOHN LAFAYETTE LAVIZZO LAWRENCE LELAND LEWIS MANIERRE MARCONI MARSHALL MIDDLE

ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM HIGH ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM

13 44 78 43 31 47 48 32 47 27 42 36 52 54 43 49 72 52 55 56 53 89 115 42 113 69 76 29 56 58 47 47 118 55 48 36 83 74 31 84

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enrollment 2011-12 34 461 448 294 353 656 313 244 34 86 222 348 286 88 466 235 783 768 574 524 450 433 328 131 215 289 259 264 205 623 322 345 276 451 337 358 350 255 # IEP # African Amer 34 456 433 290 165 24 308 244 26 78 221 335 286 59 462 231 737 23 566 501 84 417 325 108 187 79 246 251 185 303 322 338 266 445 334 352 341 247

MASON HS MAY MAYO MAYS MCCUTCHEON MCPHERSON MELODY MOLLISON MONTEFIORE MONTESSORI CHTR - ENGLEWO MORGAN MORTON MOUNT VERNON NEAR NORTH NICHOLSON TECH ACAD NKRUMAH CONTR NOBLE ST CHTR- COMER NORTHWEST O'KEEFFE O'TOOLE OTIS OVERTON OWENS PADEREWSKI PARKMAN PEABODY PERSHING PERSHING MIDDLE POPE RAY REVERE ROSS RYDER RYERSON SEXTON SHERWOOD SONGHAI SOUTHSHORE FINE ARTS

HIGH ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM HIGH ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM

9 54 42 34 58 107 53 33 34 10 44 39 47 88 46 18 112 81 58 67 72 40 37 20 44 47 24 35 32 62 35 54 61 57 43 57 50 26

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School name Level Students relocated from Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 60 Students relocated to Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 65 Faculty dismissed from Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 58

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enrollment 2011-12 271 438 428 320 407 268 399 277 434 207 362 335 265 125 406 176 47,490 # IEP # African Amer 142 214 412 317 52 260 181 273 417 185 350 332 259 121 401 175 38,326

STEWART STOCKTON SUMNER TILTON TRUMBULL URBAN PREP - BRONZEV VON HUMBOLDT WADSWORTH WARD, L WELLS, I WENTWORTH WEST PULLMAN WILLIAMS ELEM WILLIAMS MIDDLE WOODS YALE 133

ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM HIGH ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM ELEM

48 111 40 43 99 39 51 34 48 14 56 34 37 32 61 29 7,175

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