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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 30, 2020
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Cops in schools
For years the schools of Chicago have been pawns in the mayor’s budget games.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 25, 2019
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How to get rid of a CPS principal
The quest to fire Ogden International’s leader exposes flaws in the disciplinary mechanism.
- News & Politics, Feature Nov 29, 2018
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CPS sat on evidence of record falsification for months before removing Ogden principal
Michael Beyer is suing the district for due process violations amid historic merger.
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 4, 2018
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Fifty years ago, 35,000 Chicago students walked out of their classrooms in protest. They changed CPS forever.
Among their demands: black and Latino teachers and administrators, ethnic studies classes and clubs, and bilingual education
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2018
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CPS closed Stewart Elementary School in 2013. Now it’s a luxury apartment building.
A former student goes back to visit.
- News & Politics, Worst of Chicago Dec 21, 2017
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It’s insane that Chicago doesn’t have an elected school board
We elect members of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District board, but not the Board of Education.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2017
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Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool's very bad day, and other news
Also, Jason Van Dyke's lawyer makes tone-deaf comparison to torture of three black sharecroppers.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2017
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Illinois has a budget deal but now has to start paying off its $14.7 billion in overdue bills, and other Chicago news
Also, catching up with Garry McCarthy.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2017
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Moody's and S&P cut Illinois’s bond rating to one step above junk as Springfield fails to reach a budget deal, and other Chicago news
Also, the battle over gentrification around the 606 has intensified.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2017
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Patrick Kennedy: RFK assassination allows Chris Kennedy to understand Chicago violence ‘better than most,’ and other news
Also, pending a Cook County judge's decision, CPS is hoping that it will be in a position to decide the final day of the school year by May 1.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2017
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Jason Van Dyke indicted on 16 new charges—one for each bullet that hit Laquan McDonald, and other Chicago news
Also, a Jurassic World dinosaur park exhibit is coming to the Field Museum in May.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2017
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Rauner will give CPS $215 million if legislature passes pension reform bill, and other Chicago news
Also, small, regional state universities are struggling to stay open without state funding.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2017
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Report: Rahm has spoken with Trump chief of staff about help fighting violence, and other Chicago news
Also, a bipartisan Rauner commission finds that Illinois needs to spend billions more on schools over the next decade.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 4, 2016
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UNO’s records-request dodge was artless, but other charter schools may try the same move
There’s still not enough scrutiny over how privately run charters spend public money.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 29, 2015
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Charter school teachers fight to unionize, and to win over Rahm
The latest battle over privatizing education in Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2014
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The impact of charter school expansion
Many Chicago high schools are withering away.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 3, 2013
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The mayor gets the City Council to bury the elected school board issue (again)
But members of the city's progressive caucus are determined to keep the elected school board issue alive.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 22, 2013
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Why my fourth-grade class didn't respond appropriately when we learned JFK had been killed
A sigh of relief, followed by the donning of somber faces
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2013
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Mayor Rahm finds $92 million for his South Loop deal
Just when you thought the city and schools were broke, Mayor Rahm digs into the TIF slush fund for his South Loop hotel/DePaul basketball arena fiasco.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2013
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Education in Chicago: Shut up and go to school!
Hey, Mr. Mayor: if every day in school really is sacred, take the money you're spending on DePaul's new basketball arena and spring for some air conditioners.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Aug 20, 2013
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: James Wesley Jackson
This "enviromedian" toured the world with Funkadelic—and you can see him at the Hideout on August 23.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2013
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Why trying to make separate equal is a failing strategy for Chicago's schools
Separate but equal "has no place in the field of public education."
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal
Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2013
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During school-closing vote, Mayor Emanuel is heard but not seen
Rahm made himself scarce as his education aides finalized the plan to shutter 50 schools.
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 23, 2013
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A tough lesson about the N-word
Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?