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The Chicago Public Schools boycott, also known as Freedom Day, was a mass boycott and demonstration against the segregationist policies of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on October 22, 1963. [1] More than 200,000 students stayed out of school, and tens of thousands of Chicagoans joined in a protest that culminated in a march to the office of ...
Janice K. Jackson. Janice K. Jackson (born May 22, 1977) [2] is an American educator, educational administrator and former schools superintendent. Jackson served as the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, the school district's superintendent position, from December 8, 2017, until June 30, 2021. Prior to her term as superintendent, Jackson was ...
Chicago's 1937 distance education program received some renewed attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, during parts of which technology-enabled distance learning broadly supplanted in-person instruction. A number of sources mentioned Chicago's 1937 venture with distance education during a viral outbreak as a precursor of sorts to the distance ...
Calumet High School–Perspectives is a public four-year charter high school and middle school located in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opening as Calumet Township High School in 1889, it became a Chicago Public School in 1900 and closed in 2006. [4] [5] The Calumet school building is now ...
Manford Byrd Jr. Byrd Jr., 1987. Manford Byrd Jr. (May 29, 1928 – January 17, 2021) was an American educator and education administrator and former school superintendent. Byrd served as the 21st superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools district from March 25, 1985, until August 1, 1989. Byrd is noted as the first African-American man to ...
Operated by the Chicago Public Schools district, Near North opened in September 1979. Near North served as a new and replacement school for the area when Cooley Vocational High School was closed at the end of the 1978–1979 school year due to inadequate conditions within the building. In addition to being a magnet school, Near North offered ...
Ruth Burnett Love (April 22, 1932 – June 6, 2022), [4] [5] [6] also known as Ruth B. Love-Holloway [9] was an American educator, education administrator, author and former schools superintendent. [10] Love was formerly a professor of education at her college alma mater San Francisco State University. Love served as superintendent of the ...
Customs Public School ( Urdu: کسٹمز پبلک اسکول ), or CPS (established in 1982; In the Joint efforts of Pakistan Customs and Central Excise Lahore) [1] is a private school situated in Gulberg, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. [2] It offers primary education, secondary education, matriculation and British systems of education GCE ( O-Level ...