Giving Compass' Take:

• In this story from Chalkbeat, the authors discuss how mayor-elect of Chicago Lori Lightfoot is likely to affect change in the city's education system.

• What do education advocates in Chicago still need to know from Lightfoot? How does the leadership transition affect how education nonprofit groups should pursue change?

• To learn more about the previous administration's thoughts on education for comparison, click here.

Changes are sure to come to Chicago’s schools with the Tuesday night election of Lori Lightfoot, 56, the former federal prosecutor who achieved the improbable: going from a relative unknown to a landslide victory in the race to be Chicago’s next mayor.

Lightfoot, who was previously appointed to lead several city police oversight agencies but has never held elected office, pledged throughout her campaign to bolster the city’s struggling neighborhoods, starting with strengthening public schools. She inherits governance of a school district that a decade ago topped 400,000 students but has since dropped nearly 12 percent to 361,000.

Lightfoot said early and often on the campaign trail that she’d pave a path for a school board selected by voters, prioritize neighborhood school investments over expansion of competitive programs that require tests to get in, and freeze charter expansion — dramatic reversals from her predecessor Rahm Emanuel, under whose watch a parade of CEOs opened new charter schools and additional gifted and classical options.

Lightfoot has spoken frequently about the gaps in achievement between black and brown students and their white counterparts and stressed the need to draft and enforce an equity policy that would “act as a north star for CPS staff and students alike.” She also said the district should weigh in on budgeting and how decisions impact students of different races before distributing new programs, such as International Baccalaureate or arts programming.

Read the full article about Chicago schools by Yana Kunichoff at Chalkbeat