Looking Ahead to High School

Fall Guide 2011 Vol. 19 No. 1

A note from the editor

To our readers,

Welcome to our third annual fall guide, the first of six Notebook print editions for the school year. Each September we try to provide you with vital information in an issue designed to be kept as a reference.

This fall, besides telling you about the many changes in the District, we are again spotlighting the city’s public high schools. The decision about where to go to high school is a big one – families should be thinking about it well before 8th grade.

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These neighborhood schools are actively recruiting

by Paul Jablow

Avvonya Payne was so determined this summer to get her daughter Alicia into a good, safe school that if need be, "I'd have sold my house and gone into a shelter."

But she was confident that wouldn't be necessary when neighborhood recruiters from Simon Gratz High School spotted Alicia on the street and convinced her this was where she belonged. "Mom," she said when she got home. "This is the school I want to go to."

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Doing more with less

by Benjamin Herold

A new acting superintendent.

Hundreds fewer teachers and support staff.

And perhaps most challenging of all, roughly $320 million less in the District's coffers, which means cuts in everything from new textbooks to school nurses.

Such are the realities facing a District that enters the new school year needing to do more with less.