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Adolescent Literacy

A raft of past programs have failed to substantially improve the reading skills of middle grade and high school students. CPS is trying once again, as part of a federal project that aims to help teens learn how to analyze complex non-fiction.

Todd Rosenkranz

December 14, 2005

To that end, the first, and perhaps most important, challenge was to develop a budget that not only allowed schools to open on time in September, but also addressed the district's structural imbalance between revenues and expenditures. The seemingly annual budget crises of the school system resulted from the district having long-term expenditure commitments that exceeded its long-term revenue sources.

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