Huffington Post
Earlier this week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel urged middle class parents to embrace the city’s schools, saying that high-quality options were either available or on the way. Now, the Chicago Teachers Union is latching on to some of his comments, claiming his policies will marginalize minority students.
One way Emanuel hopes to improve the struggling school system is by expanding International Baccalaureate (IB) programming at CPS. Emanuel told the Chicago Sun-Times that the rigorous, pre-college curriculum currently in place at 13 Chicago schools would be expanded to 10 more neighborhood public schools, five of which will offer IB programming exclusively instead of as a supplement...