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Study: Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline, Fewer Options

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 03.06.2012

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In Chicago public schools, black students receive harsher punishments for in-school infractions than white students, a fact that mirrors a nationwide ...

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Student Arrested And Expelled For Writing Name On Desk, Peers Seek Change

Posted 09.14.2011

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A Chicago student advocacy group is fed up with its school system's zero-tolerance disciplinary policies. Voices of Youth in Chicago Education rall...

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New Study: Preschool Leads To Better Jobs, Fewer Arrests

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 08.10.2011

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CHICAGO — Preschool has surprisingly enduring benefits lasting well into adulthood, according to one of the biggest, longest follow-up studies o...

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Chicago Student Artists Showcased at AUSL's Festival of the Arts

Erick Deshaun Dorris | Posted 07.20.2011

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Nat "King" Cole, Sam Cooke, Dorothy Donegan and Sara Vaughn: famous musicians all, and all famous alumni of what is now Wendell Phillips Academy High School. Is there a future star to add to this list?

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Volumes Of Success: Chicago Bookstore Tutors Thousands Of Kids

Posted 06.19.2011

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Open Books -- known as "the most beautiful bookstore in Chicago" -- houses more than 50,000 books and countless stories of student achievement. Stack...

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Chicago 8th-Graders Score Near Bottom In National Science Tests

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago Public School eighth-graders racked up the fourth-worst science scores among 17 big-city districts to take a national science test, results re...

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Chicago Votes To Give Nearly Half A Million Chicago Students Free Breakfast

chicagotribune.com | Joel Hood and Monica Eng, Tribune Reporters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago's school board on Wednesday adopted a sweeping new program to offer free breakfasts in the classrooms of Chicago Public Schools' 410,000 stude...

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PHOTOS: 'Education Is Key' In New City Sticker Contest

Posted 05.25.2011

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Though most Chicagoans dread having to purchase a pricey new city sticker each year, the process isn't all bad. For 16 years now, the city has held a ...

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CPS Success: Dad Is In Prison, But His Son Is Going To College

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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With his father and role model in federal prison for dealing drugs, Corey Hardiman could easily be doing the same on the mean streets of Chicago's Ros...

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Chicago Teens Learn Sexual Violence Prevention Via Art Therapy

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

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This summer a group of teenage girls on Chicago's West Side is learning about sexual violence prevention while they draw. The idea is to get the girls...

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