Champaign Schools: Fighting the Opportunity Gap

Autor/in	Potter, Halley
Institution	The Century Foundation
Titel	Champaign Schools: Fighting the Opportunity Gap
Quelle	(2016), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	School Districts; Student Diversity; School Desegregation; Minority Group Students; Achievement Gap; Discipline; Educational Environment; Race; Socioeconomic Status; Outcomes of Education; Educational Opportunities; Access to Education; Educational Resources; Academic Achievement; Elementary Secondary Education; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Integrative Schule; Disziplin; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Rasse; Abstammung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsmittel; Schulleistung
Abstract	Champaign, Illinois, is a medium-sized city of over 80,000 people located 135 miles south of Chicago, known by many in the state for being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign Community Unit School District #4 (Champaign Schools) serves roughly 10,000 students in Champaign and neighboring towns of Savoy and Bondville. While Champaign city is majority white, the public school population is more racially diverse. Champaign has implemented a successful plan to desegregate schools, first instituted in response to litigation and now continued voluntarily. However, persistent struggles to address disparities in academic offerings, school discipline, and perceptions of school climate for students of color have resulted in large academic achievement gaps across both race and socioeconomic status. Perhaps the lesson of Champaign's progress and continued challenges is that desegregating schools is only the beginning of work on equity. In order to improve student outcomes across the district, Champaign must address the opportunity gap that currently prevents all students in the district from having access to the educational resources they need. This report discusses Champaign's current plan and next steps. [For the full report, "Stories of School Integration," see ED623187.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01