Understanding student discipline and suspensions data and research can empower parents to help their children and school communities flourish. 

This playbook summarizes research and data that shows suspensions negatively affect all students; some students are suspended more than others; the positive effects of restorative justice; and more. It also includes actions parents can take to learn more about their child’s school’s approach to school discipline and school climate. 

The Urban Education Institute (UEI) and Crown Family School (Crown) are seeking a Desktop Support Engineer to support computer users at the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute and Crown Family School. We are looking for a person who enjoys troubleshooting problems, working closely with others, and guiding researchers in using new systems and technologies. The Desktop Support Engineer (DSE) provides technical support to computer users in a multi-platform (primarily Windows with some Macintosh) computing environment.

The Research Analyst I will support the work of To&Through and the Consortium research teams as they design and implement studies. This role will primarily support the maintenance for and presentation of the To&Through Online Data Tool. The successful candidate will contribute to the organization’s capacity to conduct highly-rigorous quantitative research on the Chicago Public Schools. The position requires someone with data manipulation, quantitative research, and programming skills, as well as a passion for doing meaningful work to improve schools.

Arrests were two times greater in schools with a regular police presence than at similar campuses without one and race, gender and disability were huge factors in which students were detained, according to a new government watchdog report. 

The Government Accountability Office report found that when “race, gender and disability statuses overlap” — a concept often known as intersectionality — students “can experience even greater adverse consequences.”

Since 1966, Chicago Public Schools has had a visible police presence in its schools. Beginning with the 2024-25 school year, that no longer will be true. 

The Chicago School Board voted unanimously in February to no longer have Chicago Police serve as school resource officers (SROs)...

Un recurso para empoderar a las familias para que ayuden a sus hijos, y a todos los niños en sus escuelas, a prosperar. Este playbook para familias cubre investigaciones y datos clave sobre disciplina, suspensiones y justicia restaurativa.

El mismo información en inglés aquí.

Angela Lin and Christine Ng will present on Ingenuity’s continuum of data products tailored for different stakeholders, informing strategy and driving change within arts education in CPS. Their focus will be on the latest annual State of the Arts Report and new interactive dashboard. Ingenuity’s mission is to ensure that every student, in every grade, in every CPS school, has access to the arts as part of a well-rounded education. Angela is Ingenuity’s Director of Data & Research and Christine is the Data Analyst.

The Chicago Board of Education held its monthly meeting on Thursday. 

Board members are expected to overhaul the way schools track disruptive behavior and how it communicates with families about incidents at school...

Rashad Talley, the principal at Wendell Phillips Academy High School, believes safety and discipline practices that are healthy are more about the staff’s relationship with students and not whether the South Side high school has police in the building every day. 

“It’s hard for me to pinpoint whether a [school resource officer] makes that much of a difference, because I could be an SRO and have a great relationship with a kid,” he said. “I don’t think it matters, the title of the person, or the position of the person. It matters, that relationship.”

As Chicago Public Schools prepares to eliminate resource officer positions districtwide, a new study found removing police from city schools has not led to increased disciplinary issues, nor did it make students and staff feel less safe. 

The University of Chicago Consortium on School Research on Wednesday published a new report examining the impacts of removing resource officers from Chicago public high schools...