Chicago Public Education Fund
Chicago Public Education Fund
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About this organization
Mission
The Chicago Public Education Fund improves Chicago's public schools by investing in the talented, innovative leaders who run them. We partner with Chicago Public Schools, the City of Chicago, the local philanthropic community and school leaders to build and sustain a culture of strong leadership.
About
Program and Innovation The Fund's work includes investments in principal programming, actionable data and public reporting.Fund programs serve leaders in schools across the city, representing a diversity of school types including elementary, high school, charter and district. Each year, we leverage real-time data on school needs and outcomes to implement the most effective programs for our participating educators. In 2019, we served leaders in nearly half of Chicago's public schools, impacting 154,000 students, 75% of whom are low-income. We positively impacted principal satisfaction, retention and student outcomes across important measures: 90% of principals say their participation in Fund programming increased their in-role satisfaction, and 31% of participating principals achieved an improvement in their overall 5Essentials rating, compared to a system wide average of 21% for all non-participating principals.Specifically, we served 283 principals in 373 program slots. This includes 32 principals who improved retention rates among their teachers in partnership with The New Teacher Project (TNTP) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and 23 principals who worked with Tegy, Inc., to modify their school schedules to more strategically serve their students. One-hundred-fifty-four principals participated in one of 20 principal-led Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). Each PLC is facilitated by a high-performing principal with known expertise in a specific topic area. The Fund also supported 70 principal-led teams through our seventh annual Summer Design Program (SDP), a unique professional development opportunity that offers school teams the space, time and expertise to pursue innovative solutions to some of their most pressing challenges. Through the 2019 SDP, principal-led teams worked directly with expert partners from University of Chicago Impact and the National SAM Innovation Project. In addition, The Fund's work included efforts to improve the retention of Chicago's top-performing principals through the Chicago Principals Fellowship (The Fellowship), The Cahn Fellows Program and Executive Principal. The Fellowship, which is a partnership between The Fund, Crown Family Philanthropies, Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University, is an executive-level leadership development program intended to grow the skills of top principals and further expand their leadership capacity. Twenty-three high-performing principals joined the fifth cohort of The Fellowship in 2019, committing to lead in Chicago through at least 2021. The Cahn Fellows Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, offered programming to seven Chicago principals. The Cahn Fellows Program is a national program that recognizes top principals and develops their capacity as leaders. We also launched the Executive Principal program in the 2018-19 school year. This program is a unique year-long opportunity for two principals to work and grow together through an intensive mentorship relationship. Principals, who spend up to 300 hours together throughout the school year, are paired based on complementary strength and growth areas and school demographics. Six principals engaged in the first cohort. Across all our program investments, we double down on our organizational commitment to equity. This included prioritizing supports for the schools that need it the most through one of our pilot efforts, the South Side Education Alliance. This program serves eight elementary schools on Chicago's South Side through a collaborative approach - the group shares data, defines common outcomes and tests solutions in partnership with schools and communities.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is listed in the filing as “The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them. we are a catalyst for accelerating student learning and a long standing leader in identifying and scaling what works for not only teachers and principals, but also their students.”.
When discussing its operations, they were characterized as: “The fund improves public schools by investing in the talented educators who lead them.”.
- The non-profit's legally reported state of operation is IL.
- The filing states that the non-profit's address in the year 2020 is 200 West Adams No 2150, Chicago, IL, 606065230.
- The form submitted by the non-profit for 2020 shows a total of 27 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $1,195,157.
- The organization has 20 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1999.
- The organization pays $2,284,935 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $143,331 in fundraising expenses.
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