The socioeconomic makeup of the city's elite private schools is a public policy issue—or should be one.
by Steve Bogira
This is the fourth installment in our occasional series on segregation in Chicago’s schools. The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in Hyde Park, the Latin School of Chicago in the Gold Coast, and the Francis Parker School in Lincoln Park are expensive and private, but they believe deeply in diversity—racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic.…[ Read more ]