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by REBECCA VEVEA | Feb 20, 2012
Chicago Public School officials are making big changes during their first year in office, but there’s a group of people feeling shut out once again — parents. Despite a well-publicized commitment to involve parents in the city’s public education system,...
by REBECCA VEVEA | Feb 16, 2012
The Chicago Teachers Union unveiled its blueprint for improving public schools Thursday–calling for smaller elementary class sizes and more art and computer offerings–in an apparent effort to broaden the narrative around its negotiations with the district. There was no mention...
by REBECCA VEVEA | Feb 14, 2012
In seeking a turnaround of Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said he wants to shift away from state-mandated test scores in assessing school success. But when  a University of Chicago study last week raised questions about Chicago’s turnaround...
by REBECCA VEVEA | Feb 13, 2012
One of the city’s highest-performing charter school groups, the Noble Street Charter School Network, has raked in nearly $400,000 over the last two school years by fining students for disciplinary infractions, a group of Chicago Public School students and parents said this...
by REBECCA HARRIS | Feb 10, 2012
The rapid growth of Latino and other immigrant populations in Chicago’s suburbs is outstripping the ability of public schools to provide bilingual programs mandated by Illinois, and government financing for the programs is shrinking, state records show. Of the 58...
by REBECCA VEVEA | Feb 9, 2012
Chicago elementary schools that underwent various reform efforts since 1997 improved during the first four years of intervention, but still lagged behind the district on state exams, the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research said in a report released...
by HUNTER CLAUSS | Jan 31, 2012
As Chicago Public Schools begins what are certain to be contentious contract talks with the Chicago Teachers Union, Mayor Rahm Emanuel emerged as the star of a new online video promoting charter schools and ripping the union. An exclusive interview...
by REBECCA VEVEA | Jan 25, 2012
The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday faced angry community members opposed to two of the new administration’s cornerstone reforms—overhauling failing schools and increasing the length of the school day. Neither issue was on the agenda, which included the approval...
by REBECCA VEVEA | Jan 19, 2012
Six months after barely closing a $712 million deficit, Chicago Public Schools officials have racked up a nearly $10 million bill in their aggressive push to lengthen the school day. With the entire city school system moving to a seven-and-a-half...
by PAUL ENGLEMAN | Jan 17, 2012
Soon after Dennis Kass started teaching history at a small Little Village high school four years ago, he put his law degree to use dispensing free legal advice to students and their families after school. That modest beginning has evolved...
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