For the first time in years, when parents drop off their children to school this year, they will be in smaller class sizes. Elementary students will have access to the state-mandated recess Chicago Public Schools previously didn’t provide. Libraries are reopening. Our homegrown national model for public education, sustainable community schools, is expanding to 16 more campuses this year.

Black students will be taught in classrooms where the right to learn their history is enshrined in our contract and all students will have greater access to sports, arts, music and a nurse and counselor. School will be one of the safest places immigrant students can be due to our expanded sanctuary protections. Students with disabilities will be supported by 215 new case managers. LGBTQ+ students will arr

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