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CPS Graduation Rate Hits Record High

2013-05-28T10:36:21Z

Despite a tense school year that included the city's first teachers strike in 25 years and the district threatening to close more than 100 of its scho...

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Chicago Board Of Ed Slapped With Stunning Lawsuit

2013-05-15T17:22:38Z

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...

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

2013-04-30T13:22:52Z

Story by Wendell Hutson, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago:

ENGLEWOOD — A South Side nonprofit fighting to keep Elihu Yale Elementary School open has prop...

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CPS Consults Gang Boundaries Amid School Closure Plan

2013-04-15T16:22:04Z

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...

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Parents Frustrated By Lack Of Response At School Closing Meetings

2013-04-07T11:59:06Z

Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago:

NEAR WEST SIDE — Many concerns and questions, but no answers. That’s how it went for parents...

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4 Years In A Row: 100 Percent Of School's Graduates College-Bound

2013-03-29T16:29:44Z

For a remarkable fourth consecutive year, all 167 seniors at Urban Prep Academies schools have been accepted at four-year colleges or universities thi...

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CPS School Closings Provoke Parents' Confusion, Anger

2013-03-27T08:08:24Z

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

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Rahm Breaks His Silence On School Closings

2013-03-24T11:01:00Z

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

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Parents, Activists, Aldermen Dig In For Battle Over School Closings

2013-03-23T12:06:28Z

After Chicago Public Schools officials on Thursday unveiled their plan to shutter 54 of the district's elementary schools, the Chicago Teachers Union,...

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Parents Balk At Liquor Store's Scholarship For Grade-School Kids

2013-03-21T11:58:28Z

While booze and studies are common for college kids, the two don't exactly go hand-in-hand for elementary schoolers. For that reason, some parents at ...

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CPS Announces Its Largest School Closing Push Ever

2013-03-21T15:57:41Z

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Chicago Public Schools on Thursday announced their plan to close 54 of the district's school programs and 61 school buildings.

The...

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State Lawmakers Call For Moratorium On CPS School Closings

2013-03-12T16:23:26Z

The Illinois state legislature's Latino and Black caucuses on Monday warned against the Chicago Public Schools' plan to close dozens of its schools --...

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Scrap Yard Owner Charged Following Theft Of 8 School Buses

2013-03-09T12:23:02Z

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Unrelated charges were filed Sunday in the theft of eight school buses from a garage on Chicago's South Side.

The buses were disco...

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Report: CPS Has Capacity To Close, Consolidate 80 Schools

2013-03-07T09:49:30Z

Chicago Public Schools' Commission on School Utilization late Wednesday released its final report on the district's plan to shutter dozens of its scho...

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CPS Expanding Sex Education To Students As Young As 5

2013-03-05T15:43:18Z

Is five years old too young to begin receiving sex education lessons?

Last week, Chicago Public Schools' Board of Education approved expanding sexu...

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Charter Schools Shocked To Land On CPS' 'Warning List'

2013-02-28T13:29:49Z

Charter schools are the latest — and most surprising — addition to the chorus of voices unhappy with the Chicago Public School's closure process f...

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Preliminary CPS School Closing List Roils Community Groups

2013-02-14T09:37:40Z

Chicago Public Schools' release of a preliminary list of 129 of the district's 681 schools that are eligible for closure by June was met with disgust ...

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129 Schools Named To Preliminary CPS Closure List

2013-02-13T15:38:26Z

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Two days ahead of the release of a preliminary list of Chicago Public Schools that are slated to be closed, Alderman Proco "Joe" More...

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12-Year-Old Used Replica Gun To Rob 11-Year-Old Classmate

2013-02-09T13:16:51Z

Police say a 12-year-old boy robbed an 11-year-old classmate in a bathroom inside a Chicago elementary school using a replica of a handgun on Friday a...

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Mother Fined Over $3,000 For Son's Behavior At Charter School

2013-01-27T13:38:06Z

A Chicago mother claims that the charter school her son attends -- and is known for raking in thousands of dollars each year in discipline-related fin...

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Schools Requiring Criminal Background Checks For Visitors

2013-01-25T13:44:32Z

Visitors to schools in a suburban Chicago, Ill., district are now required to undergo a background check as part of added security measures in the wee...

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CPS Email Directs Parents To 'Naughty' Erotic Website

2013-01-25T11:17:04Z

A number of parents of Chicago Public Schools students got a surprise on Thursday when an e-mail intended to inform them of changes to the Illinois St...

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Touring 'Half-Empty' CPS Schools

2013-01-22T14:58:49Z

Chicago Public School leaders say 137 of their schools are sitting half-empty—with way too few students. When they talk about closing schools to mak...

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Panel To CPS: Don't Close Any High Schools

2013-01-11T08:56:01Z

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A commission charged with helping the Chicago public school system decide which schools...

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Karen Lewis Says 'Off With Their Heads,' Stirs Right-Wing Ire

2013-01-08T16:43:24Z

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is no stranger to her outspokenness landing her in the headlines -- but many conservatives are particular...

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