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Lets face it...CPS call the suntimes and trib to act like it was invesitigative journalism....but they are really just calling to print this stuff to p off the public so we get less and less in...

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In: In the News: CPS pays millions for unused time off

5 hours 45 min ago

The news today about sick day payouts only tell one side of the story. Let's start with those paid maternity leaves teachers get - oh, wait, in a profession of mostly women, they DON'T ! Sick...

By: Anonymous

In: In the News: CPS pays millions for unused time off

6 hours 39 min ago

All the more reason Mr. Thomas' comparison was wrong ... you cannot compare charter schools, for instance , with their selective enrollment ,to completely neighborhood schools like Piccolo and...

By: Anonymous

In: Piccolo, Casals staff: Give current leadership a chance

7 hours 12 min ago

CPS has put it on the table. CPS has put in the new 35 page contract, no pay for sick days that are not used!

By: The Retired Principal (RP)

In: In the News: CPS pays millions for unused time off

7 hours 30 min ago

The SunTimes is so ridiculous with its 4-inch-high headline about the payout of unused sick days at CPS. Not even the most incendiary gossip rag uses those tactics. To this point in time, unused...

By: Send in the Journalists

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Wednesday Morning News, Part 1

By: Alexander Russo / June 11, 2008

Opinions among those who attended the event varied somewhat, based on comments yesterday (see below). Here's how the news covered it:

Thousands of Students Rally for Funding WBEZ

Thousands of Chicago Public Schools students gathered in Soldier Field this morning to support more state funding for education. PLUS: Mixed Reaction to School Funding Rally

30000 kids at city's 'largest civics lesson'

Chicago Sun-Times

As she listened to the elocutions of her peers and politicians on the violence that has killed 24 Chicago Public Schools students this year, ...

CPS Rally At Soldier Field Draws Thousands NBC5.com

An estimated 35000 Chicago Public Schools students attended a rally at Soldier Field on Tuesday, celebrating the end of the year but also putting ...

School rally at Soldier Field seeks more money for anti-violence ...

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As Ben One began, James, 16, forgot for a moment why he and thousands of other Chicago Public Schools students were bused to the stadium.

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Wednesday Morning News, Part 1

Personally, where did you find the best news coverage of the costs of that Wednesday event at Soldier Field?

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