April, 1997
Volume VIII, Number 7

Capital Improvement Plan

Editorial: Where are the dollars going, and for what?

Feature story: Financing: State law, new management turn pipe dream into reality
How the school system returned to the bond market.
See also: Contract doesn't guarantee raises

Feature story: Priorities: Board behind on assessing needs, tracking spending
The information that principals and school watchdogs want but aren’t getting.
See also: A CATALYST analysis of spending
See also: Where we got our numbers

Advocates for disabled win seat at the table
How a legal complaint and community pressure helped produce an equitable plan to spend scarce money on making schools accessible.
See also: Public Building Commission not much better

Law exempts Chicago from safety survey
Unlike other Illinois school boards, the Chicago School Reform Board is not required to rank life, safety and health hazards in its schools, but it isn’t ignoring them either.

Tales from the rehab front
Rehab starts, then stops at Howland. Bogan is getting what it wants. Nicholson needs the basics but is getting a campus park. A television exposé gave Brenan a boost. May’s plans plagued by "disappearing" money.

Year-round schooling can cure much of what ails us
by Molly A. Carroll

Probation: The latest on central office activities
From remediation to national honor
Probation promotes collaboration at Riis, Harper
See also: Riis profile
See also: Harper profile
Principal standards
Rainbow/PUSH education summit

Comings and goings

Elsewhere