The City’s school-based vision program will be expanded to every school in Chicago after being approved by the City Council. Since the program’s inception in 2013, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has provided comprehensive vision services to 250,000 students and provided over 126,000 pairs of eyeglasses to Chicago Public School (CPS) students. Services were only available to every CPS elementary and high school, including charter and option schools. The approved ordinance allows CDPH to extend these vision services to students in need at any school. Many schools previously ineligible for the CDPH vision program have a large concentration of low-income children. At schools supported by the Big Shoulders Fund, for instance, 85 percent of students receive free or reduced-price lunch. In some of those schools, the figure is 100 percent.