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Chicago Public Colleges is extending the applying deadline for college students who wish to go to varsities exterior their assigned neighborhood possibility.
GoCPS purposes will now be due at 5 p.m. on Nov. 22 as an alternative of Nov. 15. This is applicable to all eighth grade college students who’re making use of to highschool.
The district has prolonged the deadline up to now, together with in 2022. Final 12 months, the Excessive College Admissions Take a look at crashed on the day CPS eighth graders have been scheduled to take the examination, however the deadline remained in early November. Nevertheless, highschool candidates got additional time to re-rank their decisions.
The HSAT didn’t have any technical issues this 12 months. CPS college students took the examination on Oct. 9. The check can be given to non-CPS college students making use of to district excessive colleges for the final time on Nov. 23 and 24.
The method for making use of to highschool in CPS has been criticized for being worrying and inequitable. Even so, in Chicago, about half of all public elementary college college students go to a faculty that’s not their assigned neighborhood college. At the highschool stage, about 75% journey to a highschool and attend an possibility that’s not their zoned possibility.
The new CPS five-year strategic plan hopes to shift away from an overemphasis on college alternative and improve the variety of college students attending college of their neighborhood or nearer to dwelling.
Becky Vevea is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Chicago. Contact Becky at bvevea@chalkbeat.org.
