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 Tribune | Angie Leventis Lourgos | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago
Ten Chicago Public Schools students who sued the district last month alleging an unsafe environment at Fenger High School will be allowed to transfer ...
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...
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 11.18.2009 | Chicago
Getting unions to prioritize compensation and not the strictures that constrain schools would require a tectonic shift in their priorities, but precedent for such reformed advocacy does exist.
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.
ABC 7 | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
More Chicago Public Schools students will have an opportunity to learn Arabic thanks to a grant from the U.S. government. ...
Catalyst Chicago | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
CEO Ron Huberman today announced six recommendations for new schools that he will submit to the Board of Education later this month--about a third mad...
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' ...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
Between the shootings steps from school boundaries and the domestic violence, there's not a whole lot of good news on the teen front. But I have some.
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
Responding to a wave of teen violence and the brutal killing of honor student Derrion Albert, the Rev. Jesse Jackson hopped on a school bus to escort ...
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
A new study shows nearly a quarter of African-American males who drop out of high school end up in jail....
AP | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he's proposing several plans to curb youth violence, including adding more police officers at schools...
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. ...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Even in the cold rain, Danielle Jones would rather stand on the street and wait for her father to pick her up from her high school on ...
Kevin Coval | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
The city will be abuzz with language and records of now from people who are normally never heard from, the youth. Seen and now heard. And safe.
Chicago Public Radio | Linda Lutton | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union wants Chicago to create an alternative school for chronically disruptive students....
Chicago Public Radio | Jennifer Lacey | Posted 12.03.2009 | Chicago