Chicago Public Education Fund

The Chicago Public Education Fund (the fund) supports strong public schools citywide by investing in the talented educators who lead them. In 2025, our programs and partnerships supported 175 school leaders (principals), 199 aspiring principals (assistant principals, instructional leaders, and teacher leaders), 34 principal supervisors (network chiefs and deputy chiefs), and 22 local school council (LSC) members in Chicago's public schools, serving over 149,000 students across the city. We prioritized broad educator engagement through commitments to our annual principal and assistant principal (AP) engagement surveys and principal and AP appreciation campaigns. In addition, as active participants in Chicago's education community, we maintained systems and data that informed our programmatic efforts and helped accelerate improvements for school leaders and their scholars. We leveraged data to conduct policy analyses that were shared with key policymakers, including the leadership