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School Closings, Flight Cancellations After Snow Storm

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 12.21.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Millions of East Coast commuters returned to work Monday over slick roads and icy sidewalks after a weekend winter storm dropped reco...

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St. Athanasius Closed: Evanston Elementary School Shut Down After Swine Flu Scare

CBS2 | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

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A rash of students out sick with flulike symptoms has shut down a Roman Catholic elementary school in Evanston....

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Chicago Teen Deaths, Violence Tied To School Reform Plan?

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

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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 ...

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Company Creates Online Portal for NJ School District

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

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Schools security technology provider Virtual Ed Link has created the first interactive Safety and Security Management (SSMS) portal for a New ...

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Muslims Seek School Closings On Holy Days; Bloomberg Resists

wsj.com | SUZANNE SATALINE | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York

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Muslims groups here are pressing city officials to close public schools on two of the faith's holiest days, just as schools do for major Jewish and Ch...

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Sebelius: Vaccinations main swine flu defense

AP | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Swine Flu Outbreak, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Vaccinations @Y:Health, Flu, Vaccinations, Health and Human Services, School Closings, Living News

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a massive school closing wouldn't stop the spread of the sw...

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Mitchell Wiener, Assistant Principal Of School, Becomes First Swine Flu Death In New York

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 06.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Assistant Principal of Queens School, Assistant Principal Dead, First Swine Flu Death, Swine Flu Death, Mitchell Wiener, School Closings, Home News

NEW YORK — A school assistant principal who was sick for several days with swine flu on Sunday became the city's first death linked to the virus...

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School Closings, Race, and Movement Politics

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics

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Tom Vander Ark

The last re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (called No Child Left Behind) was an attempt to close these gaps, but the status quo protects bad schools and bad teachers.

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Queens School Principal Stricken With Swine Flu Clings To Life

New York Daily News | Posted 06.15.2009 | Local

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A Queens assistant principal with swine flu was in critical condition Friday as his distraught family blamed slow-moving city officials for putting hi...

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The Carpenter Case: School Reprieves Raise More Questions

Curtis Black | Posted 03.27.2009 | Chicago

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Why, out of all the small and struggling schools in the district, were these ones put on that list in the first place? Would more attention to detail have spared some of the other schools?

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Chicago School Closings Moratorium Bill Advances

Gapers Block Mechanics | Ramsin Canon | Posted 03.22.2009 | Chicago

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Soto School Closure Moratorium Bill Passes Committee [...] The vote was 20-0. Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, candidate for Rahm Emanuel's House seat, is a Ch...

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Beyond School Closings

Curtis Black | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, Chicago School Closings, Chicago Public Schools, Cynthia Soto, CPS Closings, Renaissance 2010, Cynthia Soto School Closings, School Closings, Chicago News
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CPS critics have long advocated a plan that would provide transparency and accountability, ranking projects by need and ensuring that resources are distributed equitably.

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Obama Incredulous Over School Closing, Says DC Needs To Toughen Up (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

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At a meeting in the Roosevelt Room with business leaders to discuss the economy, President Obama asked to make an unrelated comment -- on the weather....

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CPS School Closings List

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago Public Schools leaders released the list of schools Friday they plan to close, consolidate, gradually phase out or attempt to turn around. The...

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CPS Announcing School Closings

Chicago Public Radio | Linda Lutton | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan will recommend today that some two dozen schools be closed or consolidated. Schools will be shut down for tw...

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Chicago Weather: Frigid Temperatures Through Friday, Wind Chill Plunging, School Closings

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago

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SCROLL DOWN FOR LATEST UPDATES AND TRAVEL INFORMATION FRIDAY 1/16 2:30 P.M. The temperature briefly reached above zero today, before plunging back ...

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