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Where UIC grads land first jobs March 12, 2008 By: Debra Williams UIC's College of Education has found that student teaching matters—a lot—when it comes to placing new teachers in minority schools. Most newly-minted teachers took their first jobs in schools with the same racial or ethnic mix as the schools where they were assigned to student teach, according to a UIC study that looked at data from 1998 through 2002. Read More \| (0) Comments	No pipeline to needy schools March 12, 2008 Poor, minority schools are under-represented among the schools that host student teachers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), an institution that provides nearly a third of the district's new teachers. In 2005, only one-fifth of the college's student-teaching sites consisted of high-poverty, segregated, low-performing schools. "Without sustained practice in these schools, teacher candidates will be less inclined to seek or accept jobs in these communities," according to a UIC data brief. Read More \| (0) Comments
Wanted: diversity in teacher pool March 12, 2008 By: Debra Williams UIC is looking for a few good urban teachers. With that in mind, the university's College of Education decided to do something about the dearth of students committed to teaching in urban schools as well as the lack of minority teacher candidates. Read More \| (0) Comments	Fallout still echoing at Curie March 12, 2008 By: Alexander Russo POSTED ON MARCH 11: The dust seems to have settled on the Curie High local school council following last year's tumultuous and very public battle over the decision not to renew a popular principal's contract. But things could heat up. Some LSC members who voted to oust Principal Jerryelyn Jones are now disputing the use of expedited procedures by council chair Otis Davis, one of former Jones' defenders, to appoint two new council members. (The two new members are Brian McDonald and Mary Reyes.) Read More \| (0) Comments
El Examen ISAT February 26, 2008 By: Sarah Karp Read More \| (0) Comments	Matching students to schools February 18, 2008 By: John Myers Posted February 18, 2008--As Chicago Public Schools rethinks how it assigns and registers students in high school, the district may take cues from New York and Boston, cities that recently and radically transformed their assignment systems work. Read More \| (0) Comments
High schools with most, least enrollment creep February 18, 2008 After the first week of school, 17 high schools saw enrollment jump 10 percent or more, some as much as 20 percent. On the other end of the spectrum, 19 had virtually no increase in population, with no more than a 2 percent rise in enrollment. Enrollment growth after first week # new students after 1st week Read More \| (0) Comments	No more wait lists February 18, 2008 By: Sarah Karp Posted February 18, 2008--To get an early handle on next year's 9th-grade enrollment, CPS is changing the timeline for applying to and getting accepted into high schools. The district is also eliminating the practice of wait-listing students who do not make it past the first cut of admissions for selective or magnet programs. In the past, students on wait lists filled seats that were not taken by those selected in the first tier. Read More \| (0) Comments
Only game in town February 18, 2008 By: John Myers Posted February 18, 2008--Before coming to Chicago last year to head the High School Transformation initiative, Allan Alson served as superintendent of Evanston Township High School District, a one-school district. When he took over Chicago's high school reform effort, Alson says he was surprised by the large number of students who register late in Chicago's low-performing high schools. Read More \| (0) Comments