Chicago to get 5 new elementary magnets

Mayor says added choices for parents designed to combat enrollment declines

March 12, 2008

Chicago will open five new elementary magnet schools this fall -- along with a new regional center for gifted students -- to help reverse declining public school enrollment. A first-ever children's engineering curriculum, new Montessori and International Baccalaureate programs and a school that teaches four languages, including Chinese and Arabic, are among the array of choices to be offered at Disney II, LaSalle II, Sir Miles Davis, Kershaw and Oscar Mayer magnet schools and at Coonley Regional Gifted Center.

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