Second annual Report Card on reform

Published in February 2007 and republished in March by Crain’s Chicago Business, the report card provided key data in five areas:

• School autonomy, the theme of the report card issue, including comparisons between charter schools and regular schools.
• Central officer operations aimed at giving schools more autonomy.
• School performance, including test score and dropout rate comparisons.
• New schools, including who is enrolling in Renaissance 2010 schools. (Fewer than 2 percent of students from schools that were closed enrolled in Ren10 schools.)