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Chicago Public Schools (EXT-013)

Summary 🟡 ~

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

Organization

Chicago Public Schools is the third-largest school district in the United States, operating hundreds of elementary and high schools across Chicago. 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

  • Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
  • 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).

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 (~)
  • Confidence: 82/100
  • Rationale: Major public institution; recurring DePaul partner evidenced across Collaboratory activity records.
  • Last verified: 2026-06-14
  • Evidence:
  • Official CPS website 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: May 28, 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.

Linked Relationship IDs

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.