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Janice K. Jackson
Janice K. Jackson (born May 22, 1977) is an American educator, educational administrator and former schools superintendent. Jackson was the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, the school district's superintendent position, from December 8, 2017, until June 30, 2021. Prior to her term as superintendent, Jackson was the chief education officer of the district.
Jackson was born on Chicago's South Side at Englewood Hospital. Jackson was the third-born of five children, and grew up in a working class household. Her father worked as a taxi driver. At one time, she, her parents, and her four siblings all lived in a two-bedroom apartment in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Jackson attended Cook Elementary School in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Jackson attended Hyde Park Career Academy, graduating in 1995. Jackson attended college at Chicago State University. She graduated in December 1999, having earned a bachelor's degree in history and secondary education.
Jackson's education career began as a social studies teacher at South Shore Community Academy High School. Before receiving a teaching job at South Shore Community Academy High School (part of the Chicago Public Schools), Jackson worked as a cashier at an Express store. While working as a teacher at South Shore Community High School, Jackson continued to study at Chicago State University, getting a master's degree in history. Jackson was involved in the designing of a new Chicago Public Schools institution, Al Raby High School. In 2003, she helped to obtain a $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to underwrite its establishment. The school opened in 2004, when Jackson was the age of 27. The school, located in a previously closed Chicago Public School building located near the Garfield Park Conservatory in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, was centered on providing intensive support for a small student body of under 400, emphasizing the study of technology, science, and the environment. Jackson would become the school's principal. She would later recount that she had initially planned simply to help to design the school, and had no original intent of being its principal. The high school had one of the city's lowest dropout rates.
While Al Raby High School's principal, Jackson began attending University of Illinois at Chicago to earn a second master's degree in education, this time in leadership and administration. She continued University of Illinois at Chicago, studying in its Urban Education Leadership doctorate program. She has considered Steve Tozer, who headed the program, to be her mentor. She completed her doctorate in 2010. While she was studying for her doctorate, she and her partner Torrence Price, who she had met in 2005, had a daughter.
Jackson was selected by CEO of Chicago Public Schools (superintendent) Arne Duncan to again create a new school for the district, George Westinghouse College Prep. She became the school's principal. In 2014, Jackson moved to working in the administrative departments of Chicago Public Schools, first working as one of the school district's thirteen community-network chief. This charged her with the oversight of 26 schools with 14,000 students.
Jackson became the chief education officer of Chicago Public Schools in 2015. Jackson and CEO of Chicago Public Schools Forrest Claypool did not see eye-to-eye.
On December 8, 2017, Jackson took office as the interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools, after Forest Claypool resigned. She was soon after made permanent CEO by the Chicago Board of Education (the city's school board). Jackson was the first head of the Chicago Public Schools in two decades to have had direct experience as an educator.
Jackson inherited a number of existing struggles in the school district. The school district was seeing a decline in enrollment. There was overcrowding in certain schools, and underpopulation in others. The Illinois State Board of Education had placed a monitor on Chicago Public School's special education program after discovering that they had held up and denied the provision of some services to students. Jackson took office after a number of scandals had marred the Chicago Public Schools, including scandals which led to the resignations of her the two previous CEO's, Barbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypool. Additionally, shortly before she took office, several school closings had been announced.
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Janice K. Jackson
Janice K. Jackson (born May 22, 1977) is an American educator, educational administrator and former schools superintendent. Jackson was the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, the school district's superintendent position, from December 8, 2017, until June 30, 2021. Prior to her term as superintendent, Jackson was the chief education officer of the district.
Jackson was born on Chicago's South Side at Englewood Hospital. Jackson was the third-born of five children, and grew up in a working class household. Her father worked as a taxi driver. At one time, she, her parents, and her four siblings all lived in a two-bedroom apartment in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Jackson attended Cook Elementary School in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Jackson attended Hyde Park Career Academy, graduating in 1995. Jackson attended college at Chicago State University. She graduated in December 1999, having earned a bachelor's degree in history and secondary education.
Jackson's education career began as a social studies teacher at South Shore Community Academy High School. Before receiving a teaching job at South Shore Community Academy High School (part of the Chicago Public Schools), Jackson worked as a cashier at an Express store. While working as a teacher at South Shore Community High School, Jackson continued to study at Chicago State University, getting a master's degree in history. Jackson was involved in the designing of a new Chicago Public Schools institution, Al Raby High School. In 2003, she helped to obtain a $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to underwrite its establishment. The school opened in 2004, when Jackson was the age of 27. The school, located in a previously closed Chicago Public School building located near the Garfield Park Conservatory in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, was centered on providing intensive support for a small student body of under 400, emphasizing the study of technology, science, and the environment. Jackson would become the school's principal. She would later recount that she had initially planned simply to help to design the school, and had no original intent of being its principal. The high school had one of the city's lowest dropout rates.
While Al Raby High School's principal, Jackson began attending University of Illinois at Chicago to earn a second master's degree in education, this time in leadership and administration. She continued University of Illinois at Chicago, studying in its Urban Education Leadership doctorate program. She has considered Steve Tozer, who headed the program, to be her mentor. She completed her doctorate in 2010. While she was studying for her doctorate, she and her partner Torrence Price, who she had met in 2005, had a daughter.
Jackson was selected by CEO of Chicago Public Schools (superintendent) Arne Duncan to again create a new school for the district, George Westinghouse College Prep. She became the school's principal. In 2014, Jackson moved to working in the administrative departments of Chicago Public Schools, first working as one of the school district's thirteen community-network chief. This charged her with the oversight of 26 schools with 14,000 students.
Jackson became the chief education officer of Chicago Public Schools in 2015. Jackson and CEO of Chicago Public Schools Forrest Claypool did not see eye-to-eye.
On December 8, 2017, Jackson took office as the interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools, after Forest Claypool resigned. She was soon after made permanent CEO by the Chicago Board of Education (the city's school board). Jackson was the first head of the Chicago Public Schools in two decades to have had direct experience as an educator.
Jackson inherited a number of existing struggles in the school district. The school district was seeing a decline in enrollment. There was overcrowding in certain schools, and underpopulation in others. The Illinois State Board of Education had placed a monitor on Chicago Public School's special education program after discovering that they had held up and denied the provision of some services to students. Jackson took office after a number of scandals had marred the Chicago Public Schools, including scandals which led to the resignations of her the two previous CEO's, Barbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypool. Additionally, shortly before she took office, several school closings had been announced.