Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced a five-year plan called CS4All with a core goal of making Computer Science a graduation requirement in the city’s public schools. Tech giants such as Code.org, Microsoft, Google, The Illinois Technology Foundation and many others supported the idea and started providing curriculum and preparing teachers to make it possible.
Three years later, after a unanimous vote last week, the Chicago Public School Board of Education officially decided to make computer science a graduation requirement for all high school students in the country’s third-largest school district.
