The newly seated Chicago Board of Education hand-picked by Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled ambitious plans Wednesday to transform the school district into a place where parents of students with disabilities want to send their children and where the definition of safety includes “dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.”
“This means viewing students as people with strengths and assets, and not as test scores,” said Jianan Shi, who stepped away from his role as president of a parent advocacy group to become board president.
