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why don't we compare the CPS per-pupil funding to our neighboring cities and towns? It's appalling!

By: bekelulu

In: Budgets given to principals, CPS taps 'reserves'

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Crawley got an extension. Where is his kid now? He was permitted to reside up on the Northshore because moving would cause disruption to his adopted child's education. She should come down here...

By: Les Moore

In: In the News: A new moment of CPS parent activism?

14 hours 29 min ago

I just don't understand how low income and disabled students are going to reach such higher learning outcomes if they don't first have years of improved inputs like high income students do. Can...

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In: Proposed school ratings: Scrap ISAT, close achievement gap

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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.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 9:03am

In the News: CPS promises to track displaced students

By: Cassandra West

Tags: school closings

Chicago Public Schools says this year, as it moves nearly 13,000 children from a record number of schools approved to close, it will track all its displaced students to see where they land, how they fare in their new school, and what the influx means for the new school, the Sun-Times reports.

In the News: Uproar in North Shore after teacher resigns

A veteran Highland Park teacher turned to YouTube to announce her resignation from teaching, explaining how the profession has changed over the past 15 years of school reform and why she believes public education is being misdirected.

In the News: What comes next after closings vote

By: Cassandra West

Tags: school closings

While CTU President Karen Lewis said redemption for Wednesday’s vote could come only at the ballot box, the district is about to undertake a massive effort to get displaced students to enroll in a new school before May 31.

50 school closings approved at raucous board meeting

By: Sarah Karp

Tags: school closings

Now that CPS board members have approved the closing of 50 elementary schools, 11 co-locations and five turnarounds, the district is about to undertake a massive effort to get displaced students to enroll in a new school before May 31.

In the News: Byrd-Bennett expected to spare 4 schools

By: Cassandra West

Tags: school closings

Today is the day when the Chicago School Board is supposed to decide the fate of 54 schools that have been proposed for closure, but the Sun-Times has learned that four Chicago Public Schools are no longer up for closing this year, a fifth wouldn’t close until next year and a sixth school would be spared from the staff reboot known as a turnaround.

In the News: CPS may spare 'a few' schools

By: Cassandra West

Tags: school closings

Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down. One source said the six-member school board is likely to vote for saving fewer than five of the schools on the closings list, according to the Tribune.

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