More Monday News (See Below For More) [html]Moody's, S&P boost Chicago Public Schools bond rating Crain's Moody's Investors Service bumped CPS to an A1 rating with a stable outlook for $4.8 billion in outstanding debt. The previous rating was A2 with... Should Students be Allowed on School Boards? WBEZ As the Illinois Association of School Boards considers advocating a restriction on students overseeing their own districts, Eight Forty-Eight's Gabriel Spitzer talks with a teenager who ran for a spot on a local board. School dance steps look like foreplay Sun Times My decision to one day chaperone any dances my four kids are allowed to attend arose not from the Journal article about that Texas town, but from a dear friend telling me about her own recent experience chaperoning a high school dance here in the Chicago suburbs. In praise of year-round schooling LA Times Many, noting that Los Angeles has more multitrack schools than New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and Houston combined, have written that year-round schools produce lower grades, lower attendance and higher dropout rates[/html]





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