Chicago, Ed. Dept. Settle Tutoring Dispute
City School System to Pay for Program With Summer School Money
The Chicago school district will continue to tutor 40,000 students under the No Child Left Behind Act, but will have to use money other than that earmarked for the program, a move that resolves a stalemate between the school system and federal education officials.
Officials in the nation’s third-largest district announced last week that they would cover the $5 million anticipated cost of the tutoring program for the rest of the school year by diverting $4 million from their summer school budget and accepting $1 million in federal school improvement funds from the state of Illinois.
“It’s a big win for kids,” said Arne Duncan, the chief executive officer of the 430,000-student district. “That was our only goal from day one, to...
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