What did Claypool recommend to principals?

Part 1 about the meetings held with principals regarding budget cuts is here. Claypool and the CPS Central Office staff Continue reading →

Adding in the CPS Facilities Plan Data…

UPDATE: We’re already updating the data based on crowdsourced remarks that we research and can verify.  Please see bottom of this Continue reading →

A History of CPS Enrollment 1999-2014 (Rough Draft)

It is difficult to do data work on CPS data.  Schools move, close, open, split, co-locate, turnaround, change names. I’m Continue reading →

How is the CPS Utilization formula like a dose of Tylenol?

This is a follow-up to the last blog post re: “seats available” at Level 1 & Level 2 CPS schools**… Continue reading →

Which Level 1 & Level 2 CPS Elementary Schools have seats?**

**According to CPS Utilization Formula. The results may surprise you. I’ve discussed before how schools that use a “once a Continue reading →

Where did these 100,000 empty CPS seats come from? Part I

That is a lot of empty seats in CPS schools. That is more than twice the number of seats within Continue reading →

Space Utilization: Does Central Office Use 36 as the Average Maximum Class Size or Not?

I want to clear up right away is this issue of the number “36” and the space utilization formula. I Continue reading →

Does A2A show any CPS schools as under utilized?

Yes, yes it does. It will most likely not make me very popular to point that out. But I am Continue reading →