Chicago Tonight

The high school class of 2022 will be starting ninth grade in just a few weeks. And for the first time, students at Chicago Public Schools were able to pick their high schools using a new common application called GoCPS.

The program was designed to make easier the complicated process of choosing among the district’s 165 high schools, and new research shows that 91 percent of CPS incoming ninth-graders used it to complete a high school application...