What The Fund Is Achieving
The Chicago Public Education Fund accelerates student achievement in Chicago's traditional and charter public schools by building high–performing teams of principals and teachers, improving evaluation and accountability systemwide, and reinventing classrooms with the innovative use of time, technology and talent.
Investment Funds and Goals
Consistent with our venture capital model, The Fund raises a series of funds every four years and focuses on a set of clearly defined initiatives. After each fund, we evaluate impact and results and offer to the board to close our doors if there is not a social return on their investment. The Fund's current investment fund, its third and most ambitious fund to date, leverages the strong track record of success in Funds I and II. Fund I established a high bar of quality for leadership, and Fund II embedded high–quality leaders throughout the district. Fund III will elevate the performance of exceptional leadership, encourage more effective teaching, and promote innovative use of time and technology in classrooms.
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How The Fund’s Venture Capital Process Works
The Chicago Public Education Fund applies principles of venture capital to make systemic improvements in education, with a focus on time, talent and leadership in our schools. Our approach is further defining a burgeoning field of private sector investment in public education, and is being studied by America's top business schools as a model of innovation in philanthropy. More importantly, the venture capital model enables The Fund to stay focused and get results fast
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What The Fund Is Achieving
The Chicago Public Education Fund not only recognizes a collective sense of impatience with the pace of change in our schools. We use it to our advantage. Our investors demand results, and fast. With each four–year investment fund, The Fund lays out specific, often quantifiable goals, holding ourselves and the school system to account for achieving them. Our goals are narrowly defined but ambitious, keeping us focused on what we do best – human capital – and excelling at it.
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Results The Fund is Achieving