CPS ushering in new performance policy for schools

After a dizzying and tumultuous year at Chicago Public Schools, a new performance policy intended to get more help for struggling schools could be the last major change for a while, district CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett assured her troops last week.

"There are no more big rocks. We can't move anything else. We need to move the agenda around teaching and learning," Byrd-Bennett said during a monthly board meeting...