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Chicago Public Schools (EXT-013)

Chicago Public Schools is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as external partner at DePaul University, External partner organization, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Off-campus (Chicago public school district). Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (Chicago public school district)
  • Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Organization

Chicago Public Schools is Chicago’s public K–12 district. CPS partners with DePaul on service learning, clinical placements, music instruction, health education, community research, and neighborhood engagement programs documented across the DePaul Collaboratory.

Access status

  • Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
  • Rationale: CPS partnerships are school- and program-specific; Steans Center coordinates community-school activities.
  • Access URL: www.cps.edu
  • Contact name: Steans Center
  • Contact email: steans@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-06-30
  • Source URLs:
  • www.cps.edu
  • he.cecollaboratory.com/depaul

Relationship to DePaul

CPS is one of the most frequently documented external partners in the DePaul Collaboratory, appearing as a community partner on 60+ public engagement activities (June 2026 API export). Collaborations span mental-health clinical services (Family and Community Services), music teaching-artist programs, nursing health-education workshops, Egan Office community drives, Cities Mentor Project research, and Steans Center service-learning placements.

Known collaborations & connections

  • Family and Community Services (FCS) — Tier 3 mental-health services at Pulaski International, Jenner Elementary, Fort Dearborn, Garcia Lorca, and John W. Cook Academy (Collaboratory activity records).
  • Community Music Division — tuition-free group instruction at six CPS partner schools via graduate teaching artists.
  • DePaul Nursing — health and sex-education workshops at Lawndale Community Academy following CPS training guidelines.
  • Egan Office / Steans Center — community donation drives and service-learning at schools including Gale Community Academy.
  • Connected DePaul units: UNI-004 (Steans Center), CSH-021 (community research context), UNI-012 (health-equity pathways).

Frequently named schools

Collaboratory activity records often name individual Chicago schools. Those sites are documented here as part of the district partnership rather than as separate partner pages.

Site (Collaboratory) Approx. activities (June 2026) Listed under
William P. Nixon Elementary ~17 this district page
Gale Community Academy (GALE) ~17 this district page
Lawndale Elementary Community Academy ~17 this district page
St. Pius V School ~15 this page; also see Archdiocese of Chicago
Other elementary and parochial hosts (Our Lady of Tepeyac, Leif Ericson, Henderson, Maternity BVM, and others) 2–11 each this page, or EXT-035 when the pathway is a Catholic school

Source: DePaul Collaboratory partner review (June 2026).

Collaborative documents

Document type Scope Parties Status Source
School partnership / MOU (per school) Clinical, music, nursing, or service placements DePaul unit ↔ individual CPS school Varies by program; not centrally posted Collaboratory activity descriptions (2026-06-14 export)
District-wide agreement (if any) Standing DePaul–CPS framework DePaul ↔ CPS Not publicly posted in sources reviewed Map verification (June 2026)

Verification

  • Status: ~ Likely current
  • Rationale: Major public institution; recurring DePaul partner evidenced across Collaboratory activity records.
  • Last verified: 2026-06-14
  • Evidence:
  • Official CPS website https://www.cps.edu/
  • Collaboratory API export — CPS community partner on 60+ of 715 public activities (June 2026)

Equipment

External school district partner; not DePaul inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Documented Relationships

Recurring K–12 partner for Steans Center service learning, COE/Egan Office community engagement, nursing and music outreach, and community-based research initiatives.

Documented connections

Generated from documented publication and people connections. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as 1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

People on linked publications

Sources

  1. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  2. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  3. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  4. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
  5. Named in a published article. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

Promoted from Collaboratory partner-frequency analysis 2026-06-14. Individual school partners (Gale, Lawndale Community Academy, etc.) remain activity-level detail; add school-specific EXT sub-records only if recurring multi-program evidence accumulates.