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Chicago School Closings

Chicago Board OKs Largest Planned Public School Shutdown In U.S. History

Posted 05.22.2013 | Chicago

Updated story The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close fifty Chicago Public schools, one of them delayed a year, in the nation's thi...

WATCH: This Pint-Size Speaker Captivated Chicago School Closing Protestors

Huffington Post | Rebecca Klein | Posted 05.22.2013 | Chicago

Amid the chaos of three days of protests regarding Chicago school closures, a pint-size public speaking star was born. Nine-year-old Asean Johnson ...

Board Approves Mass CPS School Closing Plan

Reuters | Posted 05.22.2013 | Chicago

UPDATE: The CPS board voted Wednesday afternoon to close 50 schools -- 49 elementary schools and one high school. By Mary Wisniewski ...

Teachers Union To Rally Downtown As School Closure Vote Looms

Posted 05.20.2013 | Chicago

The Chicago Teachers Union will wrap its three-day march in protests of Chicago Public School closings with a Monday afternoon rally in Daley Plaza. ...

Report: Some CPS Schools On Closing List Might Be Spared

Posted 05.18.2013 | Chicago

Story by Mark Konkol, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: CHICAGO — Some Chicago Public Schools slated to close this fall as part of the largest school con...

Chicago Board Of Ed Slapped With Stunning Lawsuit

Posted 05.15.2013 | Chicago

With the Chicago Board of Education set to vote in a week on closing 54 of the city's public schools and co-locating 11 others, the Chicago Teachers U...

CTU Preps For 'Long March' As Crucial School Closing Vote Looms

Posted 05.14.2013 | Chicago

With a little more than a week left before the Chicago Board of Education votes on proposals to close 54 Chicago public schools and co-locate 11 more,...

Hearing Officers Say 14 CPS Schools Slated For Closure Should Stay Open

Posted 05.07.2013 | Chicago

Independent hearing officers tasked with reviewing Chicago Public Schools' list of 54 slated closings are opposing 14 of the proposed shutterings sayi...

Group Asks Oscar-Winning Alum To Help Avoid CPS School's Closure

Posted 04.30.2013 | Chicago

Story by Wendell Hutson, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: ENGLEWOOD — A South Side nonprofit fighting to keep Elihu Yale Elementary School open has prop...

School Closings Pose Big Challenge for Chicago Public Schools

Lorraine Forte | Posted 04.25.2013 | Chicago
Lorraine Forte

As the saying goes, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Unfortunately, that saying does not bode well for the thousands of children who will be displaced when 54 schools shut down this year.

CPS Students Boycott Required State Exam To Protest School Closings

Posted 04.24.2013 | Chicago

On a day they were slated to take a state-required test that directly affects their graduation eligibility, around 100 Chicago Public School students ...

CPS Closing Plan Would Push Some Schools Over Capacity

Posted 04.22.2013 | Chicago

Story by Tanveer Ali, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: CHICAGO — Student enrollment at several Chicago Public Schools could balloon over capacity if the...

CPS Consults Gang Boundaries Amid School Closure Plan

AP | SARA BURNETT | Posted 04.15.2013 | Chicago

CHICAGO -- The Rev. Robin Hood stands in front of an elementary school in what's known as "The Holy City" – the Chicago neighborhood where the n...

When a School Is More Than a School

Wendy DuBoe | Posted 04.12.2013 | Chicago
Wendy DuBoe

While the traditional model looks at individual problems across a wide breadth of communities, this new model works in reverse: applying a wide breadth of solutions to an individual community.

Of Rich Dads and iPads...

Matt Farmer | Posted 04.11.2013 | Chicago
Matt Farmer

Question: When is a Chicago elementary school with 23 kids in a classroom not considered by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be an "underutilized" school? Answer: When it's his kids' school.

Parents Frustrated By Lack Of Response At School Closing Meetings

Posted 04.07.2013 | Chicago

Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: NEAR WEST SIDE — Many concerns and questions, but no answers. That’s how it went for parents...

'Give In Now. Rahm Will Win. Rahm Always Wins.'

Posted 04.04.2013 | Chicago

Zeke Emanuel, the oldest brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, offered simple advice to the Chicago Teachers Union Wednesday. If you're fighting his ...

Blood In Their Eyes School 'Reformers' Launch Their Final Assault

John Thompson | Posted 03.29.2013 | Chicago
John Thompson

I suspect that these "reformers," secure in their ignorance of urban realities, still believe that their opponents are to blame. Had educators welcomed enough rookies willing to gut it out and to "put children first," the short term pain they dumped on neighborhood schools would have produced transformational gain.

PHOTOS: CPS School Closing Rally Draws Huge Support, 127 Ticketed

Posted 03.29.2013 | Chicago

Scores of protesters carrying pro-school and anti-mayor slogans poured into the Loop late Wednesday afternoon to oppose the Chicago Public School's pl...

Ending Violence in a Decade

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.28.2013 | Chicago
Robert Koehler

Yes, now is the time to choose our future, so let us choose one that transcends the insanity and sheer stupidity of violent behavior. This requires personal empowerment. It also requires collective empowerment.

School Closing Protest Draws Thousands -- And Arrests

Posted 03.27.2013 | Chicago

Updated story A throng of protestors, police and media descended on Daley Plaza Wednesday, kicking off what are expected to be several weeks of dem...

What the Tribune Survey on Chicago Schools Really Says

Gregory Michie | Posted 03.26.2013 | Chicago
Gregory Michie

On many educational issues, Chicagoans aren't buying what the business-minded school reformers are selling. The future of public education, and by extension the future of the city, continues to be fiercely contested territory.

CPS School Closings Provoke Parents' Confusion, Anger

Reuters | Posted 03.27.2013 | Chicago

By Renita D. Young CHICAGO, March 26 (Reuters) - Nanette Fouch does not understand why her granddaughter may have to transfer from a ...

School's Closing Puts Inspiring Youth Orchestra At Risk

Posted 03.25.2013 | Chicago

Almost two years ago, the city of Chicago rallied to help save the music program of a West Humboldt Park public school -- and today, that same school ...

Rahm Breaks His Silence On School Closings

AP | SARA BURNETT | Posted 03.25.2013 | Chicago

CHICAGO -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel responded Saturday to widespread criticism of his plan to close 54 Chicago Public Schools, saying he wasn't interested i...