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Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 8:17 AM
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The Boys school
Ok I am confused the newspaper story linked from the
Tribune written by Sadovi and Olkon says the North Lawndale
College prep “ Boasts a nearly 100% graduation rate”
According to the schools report card as listed in http://iirc.niu.edu/
The graduation rate is 46.8%. That is a far cry from 100%
Somebody is playing very loose with the English language.
Ok I am confused the newspaper story linked from the
Tribune written by Sadovi and Olkon says the North Lawndale
College prep “ Boasts a nearly 100% graduation rate”
According to the schools report card as listed in http://iirc.niu.edu/
The graduation rate is 46.8%. That is a far cry from 100%
Somebody is playing very loose with the English language.
Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Monday Morning News
You're absolutely right, 1.04.
And it’s not just the Tribune. The Sun-Times referred to the school as “a well-regarded charter school that graduates nearly every student despite their low-income backgrounds.”
I posted this on PURE Thoughts Saturday:
A quick check of the 2008 state report cards for the school and district (on p. 3 of each) shows that North Lawndale’s actual graduation rate of 46.8% is actually far worse than the district’s 68.7% rate.
The Sun-Times story also stated that one of the students took a test to get into the school. The school’s score card lists the admission criteria as "random lottery". So, either this is another newspaper error, or North Lawndale has an unacknowledged selective enrollment process.
PURE has asked both newspapers to print corrections.
Links to the state report cards are live on PURE Thoughts:
http://pureparents.org/index.php?blog/show/More_charter_mythbusting
And it’s not just the Tribune. The Sun-Times referred to the school as “a well-regarded charter school that graduates nearly every student despite their low-income backgrounds.”
I posted this on PURE Thoughts Saturday:
A quick check of the 2008 state report cards for the school and district (on p. 3 of each) shows that North Lawndale’s actual graduation rate of 46.8% is actually far worse than the district’s 68.7% rate.
The Sun-Times story also stated that one of the students took a test to get into the school. The school’s score card lists the admission criteria as "random lottery". So, either this is another newspaper error, or North Lawndale has an unacknowledged selective enrollment process.
PURE has asked both newspapers to print corrections.
Links to the state report cards are live on PURE Thoughts:
http://pureparents.org/index.php?blog/show/More_charter_mythbusting
Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 11:05 AM
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North Lawndale College Prep has been given a free ride (like several of the charter schools) since the Tribune dictated that the "evaluation" of charters would be by means of that bogus comparison to adjacent regular public schools. That took place back in the day when Greg Richmond was still heading up the charter schools office. Before he began exporting the "Chicago Miracle -- Charter Version" nationwide (most notoriously to New Orleans).
If I had a sawbuck for each time I heard Arne Duncan or Michael Scott or Rufus Williams piously proclaim some sacred chant about North Lawndale, I wouldn't be hustling newspapers for a living. These guys (and dozens of others, right down to the stenographers for corporate Chicago who go by the name of "reporters" in the corporate press, including Catalyst) simply recite boilerplate marketing claims, based on either lies or a flimsy and easily debunked version of "facts."
The trouble is, once someone gets a bunch of "authoritative" clips (Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times) in the file, the scam gets running shoes and stronger legs. The talking points are then repeated, over and over and over, with few reporters stopping at each sentence and demanding a source or facts. After all, it's downright rude to ask a kid who tells you with a straight face that he has "studied at Cambridge University" (Boys Town) or "will go to a good college" (Northlawndale, over and over) how that happened, where the college or study is (or was) and who paid for the program.
The basic script for these Salvation narratives was scripted in the earliest days of the attacks on public schools, back when the Chicago 'miracle' was the Marva Collins Hoax. It hasn't changed fundamentally since then. We debunked it as early as 1983, and I've been amazed to hear it repeated, over and over and over, since. But, then, if you are bashing public schools, public school teachers, and teacher unions, in this city you can get away with anything including strip searching 13-year-olds and letting teenagers drown in swift moving river on a cold dark night.
That's the miracle, really. How much our colleagues in the media allow these hucksters and hoaxious creeps get away with.
If I had a sawbuck for each time I heard Arne Duncan or Michael Scott or Rufus Williams piously proclaim some sacred chant about North Lawndale, I wouldn't be hustling newspapers for a living. These guys (and dozens of others, right down to the stenographers for corporate Chicago who go by the name of "reporters" in the corporate press, including Catalyst) simply recite boilerplate marketing claims, based on either lies or a flimsy and easily debunked version of "facts."
The trouble is, once someone gets a bunch of "authoritative" clips (Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times) in the file, the scam gets running shoes and stronger legs. The talking points are then repeated, over and over and over, with few reporters stopping at each sentence and demanding a source or facts. After all, it's downright rude to ask a kid who tells you with a straight face that he has "studied at Cambridge University" (Boys Town) or "will go to a good college" (Northlawndale, over and over) how that happened, where the college or study is (or was) and who paid for the program.
The basic script for these Salvation narratives was scripted in the earliest days of the attacks on public schools, back when the Chicago 'miracle' was the Marva Collins Hoax. It hasn't changed fundamentally since then. We debunked it as early as 1983, and I've been amazed to hear it repeated, over and over and over, since. But, then, if you are bashing public schools, public school teachers, and teacher unions, in this city you can get away with anything including strip searching 13-year-olds and letting teenagers drown in swift moving river on a cold dark night.
That's the miracle, really. How much our colleagues in the media allow these hucksters and hoaxious creeps get away with.
Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Monday Morning News
Has anyone heard anything on the yet to be determined locations of the Alcott and Ogden high schools?
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 9:56 AM
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Let me see if I understand this. Three young people died, and yet people are posting comments quibbling about whether or not the newspapers reported the school's overall graduation rate properly? Wow. When you put that in the context of the rest of the articles' content -- about these young men as leaders in their school, beloved by their families, and promising high school students -- do any of you feel the slightest bit out of touch? By all means challenge ineffective or incomplete reporting, but also at least acknowledge that these articles were written in response to a real tragedy.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 10:22 AM
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Why not go back and read the posts before you attack?
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 12:50 PM
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Dear seriously
The issue is not the tragic results of that cursed night. Rather the
reporters lying in the story about the schools graduation rate. Or worst trying
to deceive us by that clever quote” They boast of a 100% graduation
rate” Other posts are taking up the issue of the tragedy.
The issue is not the tragic results of that cursed night. Rather the
reporters lying in the story about the schools graduation rate. Or worst trying
to deceive us by that clever quote” They boast of a 100% graduation
rate” Other posts are taking up the issue of the tragedy.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 1:31 PM
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I hate to say it but I think they don't really care about the human aspect of this. George and Julie's posts reflect pure narcissicism. They care about this tragedy to the extent it affects them and their platform. Sad, but that is what this emphasis and almost gleeful attack reveal.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 4:03 PM
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The fact a few people exploit this tragedy to propel their political views is incredible. The fact they are so assured of their own righteousness they do it brazenly, openly, agressively even more so.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM
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I do not see these comments as using a tragedy so much to present their political perspectives as their educational perspectives. They both have made it more than reasonably clear that their position is that charter schools as they are being developed within the framework of Ren 2010 are a threat to public education and some of the charter schools themselves are being pumped up by the media to undermine traditional CPS schools. I find it impossible not to agree with them that numerous articles, radio stories, etc have made claims about charter school performance that are not consistent with what data we currently have, which is limited. I have myself pointed out the problems with some of these stories.
Because I come from the special education world my perspective is different to some degree. The nonprofit sector was educating students who had disabilities before the public sector agreed to take on the task. In Illinois in the 1950s our Supreme Court declared to school districts that they had no obligation to educate significantly disabled students. It was only in the 1970s with the passage of Federal laws that public schools took up the education of students with disabilities in mass. Even Chicago which has a very old special education system elected not to educate certain children before that time. The role of the private sector in educating students with significant disabilities is still very large and now most of these students are paid for in their private special education schools by public school districts across our state.
It is because of my experience with the private sector in special education that I am highly circumspect of charters and contract schools. There have been more than a few special education schools for more disabled students that have had deaths, in some cases deaths because the schools failed to follow reasonable standards, or had insufficent staff to meet the needs of the children. Most private sector special education schools have never had such an occurence. It has been an on going battle in special education to get appropriate public funds sent to private schools to meet the needs of the children sent to them and prevent very bad things from happening due to the lack of support for these disabled students. It has also been an on going battle to get appropirate funding for some students with disabiliites to continue to be educated in the public sector with appropriate supports in place and not sent off to the private sector.
As an advocate for students with disabilities who have in some cases been placed at public expense into the private sector I admit to having used various tragedies that have befallen students to make points to the IL State Board of Education and the General Assembly about a lack of supervision of these schools and about inadequate funding in some cases.
I do not see that the posts by either Julie or George in relation to North Lawndale Charter and the deaths of three students are in any way imoral or deserving of the indignation of the posters. By the way their posts were under their own names and they take responsiblity for their comments which is also commendable. At this point I have heard nothing at all from North Lawndale explaining what they believe took place and what standards the school had implemented for effective supervision that night. Hopefully that will be forthcoming before CPS completes its investigation that Mr. Duncan has stated will take place.
Some people who lead charter schools in Chicago know me and I have sat at the same table with them at times, they are well aware of my criticisms, and I have never heard one of them accuse me of imorality for what I have said or written which has in some cases been harsh. I also was a member of a charter school Board of Directors at one point. I would also note that Mr. Rangel used his own name in responding to George which in my opinion is also commendable.
Rod Estvan
Access Living
Because I come from the special education world my perspective is different to some degree. The nonprofit sector was educating students who had disabilities before the public sector agreed to take on the task. In Illinois in the 1950s our Supreme Court declared to school districts that they had no obligation to educate significantly disabled students. It was only in the 1970s with the passage of Federal laws that public schools took up the education of students with disabilities in mass. Even Chicago which has a very old special education system elected not to educate certain children before that time. The role of the private sector in educating students with significant disabilities is still very large and now most of these students are paid for in their private special education schools by public school districts across our state.
It is because of my experience with the private sector in special education that I am highly circumspect of charters and contract schools. There have been more than a few special education schools for more disabled students that have had deaths, in some cases deaths because the schools failed to follow reasonable standards, or had insufficent staff to meet the needs of the children. Most private sector special education schools have never had such an occurence. It has been an on going battle in special education to get appropriate public funds sent to private schools to meet the needs of the children sent to them and prevent very bad things from happening due to the lack of support for these disabled students. It has also been an on going battle to get appropirate funding for some students with disabiliites to continue to be educated in the public sector with appropriate supports in place and not sent off to the private sector.
As an advocate for students with disabilities who have in some cases been placed at public expense into the private sector I admit to having used various tragedies that have befallen students to make points to the IL State Board of Education and the General Assembly about a lack of supervision of these schools and about inadequate funding in some cases.
I do not see that the posts by either Julie or George in relation to North Lawndale Charter and the deaths of three students are in any way imoral or deserving of the indignation of the posters. By the way their posts were under their own names and they take responsiblity for their comments which is also commendable. At this point I have heard nothing at all from North Lawndale explaining what they believe took place and what standards the school had implemented for effective supervision that night. Hopefully that will be forthcoming before CPS completes its investigation that Mr. Duncan has stated will take place.
Some people who lead charter schools in Chicago know me and I have sat at the same table with them at times, they are well aware of my criticisms, and I have never heard one of them accuse me of imorality for what I have said or written which has in some cases been harsh. I also was a member of a charter school Board of Directors at one point. I would also note that Mr. Rangel used his own name in responding to George which in my opinion is also commendable.
Rod Estvan
Access Living
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Monday Morning News
I got no issue with critiquing charter schools. They need critique. But using this incident as an excuse to do so is disgusting.
As for going public on this blog, that is a personal crusade I am not on.
As for going public on this blog, that is a personal crusade I am not on.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 9:53 PM
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>> They care about this tragedy to the extent it affects them and their platform.
>> I got no issue with critiquing charter schools. They need critique. But using this incident as an excuse to do so is disgusting.
I doubt very much any comments not explicitly about those deaths mean the commentators consider needless loss of life to be trivial. I'm saddened to see people so intolerant to others' opinions and thoughts. The subject of charter schools is a background issue the mainstream media brought into the matter and comments are being made accordingly. I can't think of any topic in life that can be discussed in a single issue way, everything is relative in varying degrees. There's no need to fabricate hidden agendas.
>> I got no issue with critiquing charter schools. They need critique. But using this incident as an excuse to do so is disgusting.
I doubt very much any comments not explicitly about those deaths mean the commentators consider needless loss of life to be trivial. I'm saddened to see people so intolerant to others' opinions and thoughts. The subject of charter schools is a background issue the mainstream media brought into the matter and comments are being made accordingly. I can't think of any topic in life that can be discussed in a single issue way, everything is relative in varying degrees. There's no need to fabricate hidden agendas.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Monday Morning News
I've had APs who could investigate faster than this ... "Reinterviewing?" "Ongoing?" "Believing?" Stalling?
From Breaking News ...
"Few answers in drownings probe
November 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM | Comments (0)
As the families of three Chicago high school students firmed up funeral plans today, state and school officials continued to investigate why the teens drowned on a field trip along the Fox River.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials said they are reinterviewing teens from North Lawndale College Prep and their chaperons this week. Chicago Public Schools spokesman Mike Vaughan said that the district's investigation is ongoing. ... Robin Steans, who sits on North Lawndale's board of directors, said she believed there were enough chaperons to watch over the students."
From Breaking News ...
"Few answers in drownings probe
November 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM | Comments (0)
As the families of three Chicago high school students firmed up funeral plans today, state and school officials continued to investigate why the teens drowned on a field trip along the Fox River.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials said they are reinterviewing teens from North Lawndale College Prep and their chaperons this week. Chicago Public Schools spokesman Mike Vaughan said that the district's investigation is ongoing. ... Robin Steans, who sits on North Lawndale's board of directors, said she believed there were enough chaperons to watch over the students."
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 1:03 AM
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One more try: I support George and Julie's right to freely blab away about charters, Obama, Bush, Duncan, the evil Board, and find conspiracies and connections to their hearts' delight. I am emphatic about that. What I find incredibly awful is their willingness to use this tragedy as a springboard to blast charters when the facts are not in. It's gross and avidly opportunistic. This is the last time I'm going to attempt to make this distinction and if you don't get it, I guess you don't get it.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 1:35 AM
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As the news from this tragedy unfolds and the facts become more clear, everyone can ask the questions, suggest answers, and demand to know how well the public's trust is being kept by this charter school (North Lawndale) and in general the CPS approach to charter schools. Massive deregulation and privatization -- of which the charter school thrust in Chicago is simply a part -- was a failed policy from the beginning, in Chicago and on Wall St.
Its only support came by the constant repetition of a set of lies and the constant attack on others (the regular public schools). Those of us who demanded adequate resources for the public schools, exposed the lies of the last 15 years (both the Vallas and Duncan administrations), and insisted that public service work (as opposed to privatization, deregulation, and "entrepreneurship") was the best way to serve people were told to sit down and shut up. The gospel had shifted so far to the right on these major social questions that half the critics were simply excluded.
This tragedy is the result of policies, not individual errors. The policies are the policies of the Daley and Duncan administrations, specifically the deregulation of charter schools in Chicago. The fact that a tragedy like this can happen and set off a massive scramble to sanitize the records of the charter schools and roll out rationalization after rationalization. Example: What the heck is Robin Steans -- a state legislator from the Northeast side last time I checked -- doing at North Lawndale Charter School?
As much will be learned from the cover up of this tragedy as will have been learned in any other charter school discussion in Chicago over the past ten years (since the earliest charters were issued and this orgy of privatization, on the one hand, and public school bashing, on the other, began) as could have been learned from the past decade of one-way narratives every October and November at meetings of the Chicago Board of Education. It was the duty of the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education during those years to demand policies and critical reviews of the charters in Chicago as they expanded. When Arne Duncan created the flimsy lie that "campuses" for charters could be used to circumvent Illinois state law, it was the duty of his Board of Directors to demand that he stop.
Instead, every person with power in this city rubber stamped these institutions, passed along lies to justify this expansion, and is now looking to cover up one of the most grotesque examples of what the public gets when these kinds of policies are allowed to expand infinitely at public expense and in the public's name.
Its only support came by the constant repetition of a set of lies and the constant attack on others (the regular public schools). Those of us who demanded adequate resources for the public schools, exposed the lies of the last 15 years (both the Vallas and Duncan administrations), and insisted that public service work (as opposed to privatization, deregulation, and "entrepreneurship") was the best way to serve people were told to sit down and shut up. The gospel had shifted so far to the right on these major social questions that half the critics were simply excluded.
This tragedy is the result of policies, not individual errors. The policies are the policies of the Daley and Duncan administrations, specifically the deregulation of charter schools in Chicago. The fact that a tragedy like this can happen and set off a massive scramble to sanitize the records of the charter schools and roll out rationalization after rationalization. Example: What the heck is Robin Steans -- a state legislator from the Northeast side last time I checked -- doing at North Lawndale Charter School?
As much will be learned from the cover up of this tragedy as will have been learned in any other charter school discussion in Chicago over the past ten years (since the earliest charters were issued and this orgy of privatization, on the one hand, and public school bashing, on the other, began) as could have been learned from the past decade of one-way narratives every October and November at meetings of the Chicago Board of Education. It was the duty of the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education during those years to demand policies and critical reviews of the charters in Chicago as they expanded. When Arne Duncan created the flimsy lie that "campuses" for charters could be used to circumvent Illinois state law, it was the duty of his Board of Directors to demand that he stop.
Instead, every person with power in this city rubber stamped these institutions, passed along lies to justify this expansion, and is now looking to cover up one of the most grotesque examples of what the public gets when these kinds of policies are allowed to expand infinitely at public expense and in the public's name.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Monday Morning News
George wrote: "The fact that a tragedy like this can happen and set off a massive scramble to sanitize the records of the charter schools and roll out rationalization after rationalization."
What is your support for this statement?
What is your support for this statement?
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Monday Morning News
>> This is the last time I'm going to attempt to make this distinction and if you don't get it, I guess you don't get it.
Maybe you don't get it? None of the comments are trivializing those deaths. We could all make postings stating what a tragedy it is, full of sorrow and grief. But that's a given already isn't it? I can't imagine anyone not feeling despair for the families involved. But instead of just focusing on the singular issue of what should never have happened, some people are commenting on things that are related to why it did happen. By ignoring all the inter-related pieces, nothing will be done to correct steps to prevent another similar tragedy. This blog is not a personal grief blog, or tied to one of those families involved -- posts about charter schools or whatever would of course be inappropriate. Keep in mind this blog is for education issues.
Maybe you don't get it? None of the comments are trivializing those deaths. We could all make postings stating what a tragedy it is, full of sorrow and grief. But that's a given already isn't it? I can't imagine anyone not feeling despair for the families involved. But instead of just focusing on the singular issue of what should never have happened, some people are commenting on things that are related to why it did happen. By ignoring all the inter-related pieces, nothing will be done to correct steps to prevent another similar tragedy. This blog is not a personal grief blog, or tied to one of those families involved -- posts about charter schools or whatever would of course be inappropriate. Keep in mind this blog is for education issues.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Monday Morning News
"But instead of just focusing on the singular issue of what should never have happened, some people are commenting on things that are related to why it did happen."
No,--not WHY it happened, because we don't know WHY or HOW it happened. But of course, the reason anything bad happens is because of the evil empire --everything boils down to that. Any issue can always be traced back to that. It is a form of fundamentalism and that is the altar that George and the PURE freaks worship at.
No,--not WHY it happened, because we don't know WHY or HOW it happened. But of course, the reason anything bad happens is because of the evil empire --everything boils down to that. Any issue can always be traced back to that. It is a form of fundamentalism and that is the altar that George and the PURE freaks worship at.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 5:16 PM
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>> because of the evil empire
It's always easy to mock conspiracy theory, but it's much harder to face reality. Fixing a problem doesn't happen when we tunnel our vision, sometimes we have to look at rough stuff.
It's always easy to mock conspiracy theory, but it's much harder to face reality. Fixing a problem doesn't happen when we tunnel our vision, sometimes we have to look at rough stuff.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Monday Morning News
"Fixing a problem doesn't happen when we tunnel our vision, sometimes we have to look at rough stuff."
I agree.
I agree.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Monday Morning News
From CBS
Nov 19, 2008 7:45 pm US/Central
"Parent Of Camp Drowning Victim Files Lawsuit
... Virginia Choice, mother of Melvin Choice, filed a lawsuit in Cook Court Circuit Court Wednesday, accusing Visionquest Association, which organized the leadership retreat at Camp Algonquin, the YMCA of McHenry County and North Lawndale College Prep of negligence.
The suit accuses all parties involved of leaving her minor son unsupervised and keeping the paddleboats in insufficient condition.
The 16-count suit asks for more than $800,000 in damages."
Watch to see if the media investigates the accountability angle now. And for perspective on the the damage request amount, recall that the Gov. Ryan/truck license case resulted in a $100 million settlement and 14 convictions for two lives.
Nov 19, 2008 7:45 pm US/Central
"Parent Of Camp Drowning Victim Files Lawsuit
... Virginia Choice, mother of Melvin Choice, filed a lawsuit in Cook Court Circuit Court Wednesday, accusing Visionquest Association, which organized the leadership retreat at Camp Algonquin, the YMCA of McHenry County and North Lawndale College Prep of negligence.
The suit accuses all parties involved of leaving her minor son unsupervised and keeping the paddleboats in insufficient condition.
The 16-count suit asks for more than $800,000 in damages."
Watch to see if the media investigates the accountability angle now. And for perspective on the the damage request amount, recall that the Gov. Ryan/truck license case resulted in a $100 million settlement and 14 convictions for two lives.
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Monday Morning News
2008-CH-42170
Neely vs CPS (School choice)
this is a case that is fighting against selective enrollment
Case Information Summary for Case Number
2008-CH-42170
Filing Date: 11/10/2008 Case Type: INJUNCTION
Division: Chancery Division District: First Municipal
Ad Damnum: $0.00 Calendar: 08
Party Information
Plaintiff(s) Attorney(s)
NEELY GINA NEELY DAVID E
8401 SOUTH LUELLA
CHICAGO IL, 60617
(773) 978-2863
Defendant(s)
CHICAGO BOARD EDUCATION
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
LINCOLN PARK HIGH SCHOOL
Case Activity
Activity Date: 11/10/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA
INJUNCTION COMPLAINT FILED
Court Fee: 319.00
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/10/2008
Participant: NEELY GINA
CASE SET ON CASE MANAGEMENT CALL
Date: 4/17/2009
Court Time: 1000
Court Room: 2510
Judge: MASON, MARY ANNE
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/12/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA D
CERTIFICATE FILED
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/12/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA D
NOTICE OF MOTION FILED
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/12/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA D
EMERGENCY MOTION/PETITION FILED
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/14/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA
CONTINUANCE - ALLOWED -
Date: 11/21/2008
Court Time: 1000
Court Room: 2510
Judge: MASON, MARY ANNE
Activity Date: 11/14/2008
Participant: CHICAGO BOARD DUCATION
FILE APPEARANCE OR JURY DEMAND, ANSWER OR PLEAD - ALLOWED -
Court Room: 251
Judge: MASON, MARY ANNE
Neely vs CPS (School choice)
this is a case that is fighting against selective enrollment
Case Information Summary for Case Number
2008-CH-42170
Filing Date: 11/10/2008 Case Type: INJUNCTION
Division: Chancery Division District: First Municipal
Ad Damnum: $0.00 Calendar: 08
Party Information
Plaintiff(s) Attorney(s)
NEELY GINA NEELY DAVID E
8401 SOUTH LUELLA
CHICAGO IL, 60617
(773) 978-2863
Defendant(s)
CHICAGO BOARD EDUCATION
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
LINCOLN PARK HIGH SCHOOL
Case Activity
Activity Date: 11/10/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA
INJUNCTION COMPLAINT FILED
Court Fee: 319.00
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/10/2008
Participant: NEELY GINA
CASE SET ON CASE MANAGEMENT CALL
Date: 4/17/2009
Court Time: 1000
Court Room: 2510
Judge: MASON, MARY ANNE
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/12/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA D
CERTIFICATE FILED
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/12/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA D
NOTICE OF MOTION FILED
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/12/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA D
EMERGENCY MOTION/PETITION FILED
Attorney: NEELY DAVID E
Activity Date: 11/14/2008 Participant: NEELY GINA
CONTINUANCE - ALLOWED -
Date: 11/21/2008
Court Time: 1000
Court Room: 2510
Judge: MASON, MARY ANNE
Activity Date: 11/14/2008
Participant: CHICAGO BOARD DUCATION
FILE APPEARANCE OR JURY DEMAND, ANSWER OR PLEAD - ALLOWED -
Court Room: 251
Judge: MASON, MARY ANNE
Fri Dec 12, 2008 at 12:38 AM
Back to North Lawndale
Just wondering if there was any "news" on N. Lawndale drownings. Shockingly, it's 12/12/08 and still no real official statement from CPS or charter school on accountability. When I googled it, it seems that NLCP is now a negative poster child for lagging morals. Odd that this survey on high school students' morality/ethics would use a NLCP pic but not reference the school in the article -- which in and of itself is worthy of discussion, without the NLCP connection.
We've never heard ... where were the teachers? How could students be SO unsupervised? No word, ever.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/11/lie_cheat_and_steal_in_high_pr.html
We've never heard ... where were the teachers? How could students be SO unsupervised? No word, ever.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/11/lie_cheat_and_steal_in_high_pr.html
