Chicago charter schools serve a higher proportion of students experiencing poverty and yet receive less annual funding than traditional schools.
At NLCP, we have spent decades embedding ourselves in the community, building partnerships and identifying resources to support our students as they face many barriers. Despite the inequities in our funding, we run programs that spread peace throughout the neighborhood, we offer housing to students in need, and we help students not only to graduate from high school but to obtain college degrees at 3.5 times the rate of those in the surrounding North Lawndale neighborhood.
On top of all of that, securing the resources necessary to do this work results in other challenges. Like most charter schools in Chicago, we have had no choice but to raise philanthropic dollars to fill critical gaps created by this funding inequity. But that is often turned into an attack against us, saying that public charter schools are bankrolled by private investors. That is ridiculous.
I want to be clear that this is not about stoking the flames of the already volatile debate around public charter schools in our city. This is about the challenge we collectively face as educators in Chicago — the challenge of serving a city full of students, the majority of whom walk into our classrooms carrying the additional burdens of trauma and poverty, which we know require extra resources. Every single one of our children deserves everything we have to give.
Mayor Brandon Johnson has made it a priority to rethink how we fund our schools and our students, and I’m excited about that potential. I know that at the heart of the matter, all of our city leaders believe that every single child in Chicago is talented and resilient and has limitless potential. We want all children to succeed. When we say all children in Chicago, that has to truly mean all children, and I hope that those beliefs can be what unite us as we move forward.
It is time that our funding reflects our values. I know it can be done, and I know that by doing so, we will change the face of Chicago. In another 25 years, we will all be proud of the next generation of leaders we have raised through our schools.Submit a letter, of no more than 400 words, to the editor
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