CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the Chicago Public Schools system to give another break to elementary school students who are not passing their classes.
For the second year in a row, CPS will promote all elementary students to the next grade level, regardless of whether they’ve passed all their subjects. Additionally, the standardized test used as an evaluation tool for selective enrollment high school admissions will be dropped.
Like last year, a student’s reading or math grades won't count against them advancing to the next grade level, bu tCPS plans to suggest students who fail reading or math go to summer school.
Meanwhile, after being accused of excluding thousands of students from having a chance to attend one of the dozens of selective enrollment high schools, CPS will do it differently starting with the next school year.
Eighth graders applying to competitive high schools will no longer take the NWEA assessment and selective enrollment test.
Until now, students were not even able to apply to about 100 International Baccalaureate, STEM, and arts programs, and the district’s 11 selective enrollment high schools unless they met certain academic criteria.
But starting next year, all eighth graders will take the selective enrollment high school exam and have an opportunity for placement at one of those schools based on their test result and their grades.
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