Even as CPS opens more new schools, children with special needs have a tougher time finding options. Placements in private therapeutic schools are scarce, and some charters are reluctant to enroll them.
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Catalyst wins national reporting award
By: Catalyst Staff / March 10, 2010
Deputy Editor Sarah Karp and Data & Research Editor John Myers have won first place in the Education Writers Association’s 2009 National Awards for Education Reporting, the country’s most prestigious competition for education journalism. Karp and Myers won for “Reaching Black Boys,” our May/June 2009 issue of In Depth, which reported on the widespread use of harsh discipline against African-American boys in Chicago Public Schools, and the impact on their education. Karp and Myers won in the special interest/trade publication category. Scott Stephens, from our sister publication Catalyst Ohio, won a second-place prize in the beat reporting category.
Catalyst wins national reporting award
Congratulations Sarah and John. It was an excellent piece of work and you totally deserved it. It is good to see people honored for their hard work. And though I do not want to rain even a little on your award, it is hard not to be just a little sad for all the hard working teachers with whom I work daily -- teachers who will never receive the awards they so richly deserve -- being steadily villified by politicians and press. I never thought I would see this day when so many dedicated, wonderful humans would be subjected to such undeserved humiliation and deceit. Happy to see your world has not gone mad as has ours.
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