Optometry College Works with Public School

The Illinois College of Optometry and the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have created a partnership to open a school-based eye clinic for the treatment of more than 5,000 CPS students. The clinic at Princeton Elementary School on the city’s South Side was established in January 2011 as part of Chicago Vision Outreach, a program that provides charitable eye health and vision care to Chicago’s underserved populations. It is the first known model in the nation to deliver eye care services year-round to an urban school district. The CPS estimates 25 percent of its students fail vision screenings each year, have broken or lost glasses, or fail to get the eye exam mandated by law to enter an Illinois school system. Read more.