CPS' decision to leverage Twitter is odd, given research that shows teens don't use the microblogging service. Facebook and MySpace are the realms of ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools officials have been awfully tight-lipped about the federal probe into alleged use of clout in admissions to the city's selectiv...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott disclosed Tuesday that he has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating ...
Chicago Public Radio | Susie An | Posted 09.04.2009 | Chicago
CEO of Chicago Public Schools is keeping a tight lip on the federal probe into the admissions process of its selective enrollment campuses....
Chicago Tribune | Stephanie Banchero and Azam Ahmed | Posted 09.01.2009 | Chicago
Federal authorities have launched an investigation into the admissions practices at Chicago's selective enrollment schools, the Chicago Tribune has le...
Bill Sweetland | Posted 08.29.2009 | Chicago
The more ideas put forward, the more difficult practical action becomes. The more we "innovate," the more resistant and hardened the problems of removing ignorance become.
CBS 2 | Jay Levine | Posted 08.28.2009 | Chicago
At a time when furloughs and layoffs are facts of life for public employees, the new consultant's contract CBS 2 found the Chicago Public Schools abou...
NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago
It turns out the rumors were true: CPS recruiters were planning to hold a "secret" job fair for invited guests only....
AP | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials with Chicago Public Schools say they're asking for an investigation into enrollment practices at the district's top high sch...
Lorraine Forte | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago
Transform every school into a charter and you'll still have to solve the equation: How to educate students, especially students who often face troubled home lives and come to school woefully unprepared to learn.
Bill Sweetland | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
Nothing that Paul Vallas, Mayor Daley or Arne Duncan did in the last 15 years has had any significant effect on the number of CPS students who can read, write and do basic math acceptably. It's all an illusion.
Lorraine Forte | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
When punishment for one group of students is so clearly out of proportion to their enrollment, something's undoubtedly amiss.
AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A study shows that about 100 Chicago public schools experience high turnover among teachers - losing more than a quarter of their staf...
Chi-Town Daily News | Alex Parker | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago
Responding to high levels of sexually-transmitted infections in Chicago high schools, the city Board of Education yesterday voted to increase STD test...
Jenifer Fox | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Most of the labels we ascribe to children overlook what is right about children. We prefer to concentrate on labeling weaknesses.
Bill Sweetland | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago
Here is the unacknowledged truth of undergraduate life in 2009: Everyone, students included, feels alienated and bored by what we have made our universities.
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Urban populations across this country don't have enough food to eat in a country that pays farmers not to grow food.
AP | CHRISTINA M. WRIGHT | Posted 07.12.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Hip-hop artist Kanye West returned to his hometown Thursday amid thunderous applause and 3,000 teenagers chanting his name during a pr...
Chi-Town Daily News | ADRIAN G. URIBARRI | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Public Schools Renaissance 2010 initiative began in 2004 as a way to create new, high-quality schools in Chicago, and some research sugges...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago
The number of black and Hispanic kids going into science and math-based fields of study in college is painfully low, despite their representation in the U.S. population. But workplace equity is not what gets these kids up early.
Chicago Sun-Times | KARA SPAK AND MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA | Posted 05.24.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to put more than a quarter of public elementary schools on a year-round schedule. That adds up to 132 o...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.04.2009 | Chicago
It can be difficult to understand how a full contact combat sport could change the lives of kids living in gang-infested neighborhoods for the better.
Chicago Public Radio | Natalie Moore | Posted 04.24.2009 | Chicago
Throughout the city, many Chicago Public Schools are getting education makeovers. Failing or under-enrolled schools are being closed and new ones open...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
At a time when Chicago Public Schools are pleading extreme poverty, CPS has found the money to give a six-figure consulting deal to the wife of the fo...
Associated Press | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE Chicago Public Schools officials updated their tally of students killed by violence during the 2008-2009 school year to 27 students, the Tribu...
Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 09.08.2009 | Chicago