Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman is floating a few ideas for how to improve teacher quality. He says fewer third year teachers should be gran...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN AND ROSALIND ROSSI | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago
A new admissions policy for elite Chicago public schools is little more than a plot to free up seats for middle-class white families tired of paying p...
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Board of Education's reimbursement process has been shrouded in mystery ever since Michael Scott used his board credit card to take his wife to Copenhagen for the Olympic bash.
Charles Madigan | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
It sounds arrogant--"I'm going to find a new way to write about politics" -- but that was my objective with Destiny Calling: How the People Elected Barack Obama. A new kind of history was being written.
Paras Bhayani | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago
I majored in economics -- a field that entails heaps of calculus -- but the state thinks I'm not qualified to teach math. This bizarre situation is a result of the Board of Ed's certification requirements.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
We can only hope that those who knew Michael Scott will continue his quest to educate, protect and uplift the invisible ones who live among us.
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
CPS CEO Ron Huberman knows there is very little racial or economic diversity in our public schools. There is also very little Huberman and his team can do about that.
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A federal judge says Chicago Public Schools must arrange for the immediate transfer of students who want to leave a South Side high sc...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
I cannot imagine the Dickensian horror city parents today go through to get their kids into decent schools. Now Chief Mathemagician Ron Huberman plans to select enrollment to these schools based on family income.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology
How about focusing our dollars on teaching methodology? Whether it be public, private, parochial, or charter, we are not leveraging computing and communications technology to the hilt.
SouthTown Star | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Public Schools ranks fifth nationally for the number of students enrolled in public charter schools....
New York Times | SAM DILLON | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presided over the closing of dozens of failing schools when he was chief executive of the Chicago public schools fr...
Catalyst Chicago | Sarah Karp | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Arne Duncan does not want to hear that any of the moves he made as CEO have anything to do with a spike in violence in schools....
Michael Jones | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
By reporting the facts, we can, as a society, stop what is really causing young inner city girls to believe that their economic worth extends no further than child assistance checks.
Chicago Tribune | Judith Graham | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools officials plan to appoint a chief medical officer, a new cabinet level position that will oversee efforts to improve students' ...
Catalyst Chicago | Sarah Karp | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
The average student who enrolls in an alternative school faces steep odds to graduating. Low skills, tough lives and scarce resources at schools are b...
Chicago Breaking News | Azam Ahmed | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools announced today it will open enrollment at a South Side military academy for students who no longer want to attend Fenger High ...
Catalyst Chicago | Sarah Karp | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
In the past year, violent incidents inside or on the grounds of Chicago's high schools rose by almost 20 percent, with students committing aggravated ...
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Back in 1977, I was Derrion Albert. But today, sadly, I shudder and cringe at the thought of trying to wade through life as a 16-year-old African-American Chicago public school student.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago
The problem of kids killing each other is not unsolvable. But it is not a problem that the mayor, aldermen, police officers and, least of all, the president will solve.
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
When I was a pastor on the West Side I found myself in the middle of rioting students on more than one occasion. What happened? Since the riots weren't caught on video, we didn't get any help from the White House.
Fox Chicago | Patrick Elwood | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
A FOX Chicago News investigation has found that millions of dollars worth of equipment has been stolen from Chicago Public Schools. ...
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Derrion Albert's death is just another symptom of a city, a nation and a world at perpetual war with itself. It's merely one in a series of tragedies that we are numb to or never hear about.
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday pledged federal support to fight a surge in youth v...
Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago
Remember the eight extraordinary students in Little Rock who ultimately required the presence of troops for their safe passage into the school they finally integrated? Where was Derrion Albert's safe passage?
Chicago Public Radio | Jennifer Lacey | Posted 12.03.2009 | Chicago