This week in CPS

There’s good news today about college enrollment for CPS graduates. New data show that about two-thirds of the graduating class of 2017 enrolled in college. Moreover, new tweaks to data collection now include students who start in the spring semester after graduation or attend certain Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other schools. This new method of c bring the count up to 68 percent of graduates starting college within a year of graduating from high school.

By comparison, back in 2010, only slightly more than half of Chicago Public Schools graduates enrolled in college...