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CPS test score gap widens August 18, 2011 By: Rebecca Harris The test-score disconnect got a bit wider in 2011, with elementary scores continuing to rise while high school scores dipped. Read More \| (1) Comments	Track E schools get underway amid budget pressures August 08, 2011 It is one thing to tell young children still captive to the demands of their parents that they must go to school in early August. But its whole other thing to pull teenagers into school at a time when days are still long and the beach is still enticing. That was the task for the staff at some of the city’s most struggling high schools. Read More \| (1) Comments
College-going inches up from Chicago high schools July 21, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Slightly more 2010 CPS graduates enrolled in college in September compared to the previous year, but still a third of high schools sent less than half of their grads to college and 37 schools or a third saw smaller percentages of their graduates move on than last year. Read More \| (1) Comments	Students demand CPS curtail suspensions July 14, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Seeing an opening with a new CEO and a new board of education, on Thursday a coalition of CPS students put pressure on the district administration to change tactics in how students are disciplined. Read More \| (3) Comments
For the Record: High school graduation rates July 14, 2011 By: Cassandra West When the 2011 Illinois school report cards come out in October, a major change kicks in on how the state calculates and reports high school graduation rates. New federal guidelines set up a single, uniform standard that all states must follow when calculating graduation rates. Read More \| (1) Comments	Chicago high schools to get $48 million in federal 'transformation' funds June 28, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Eight Chicago public high schools are each in line to get $5.6 million in federal money to use over the next three years for transformation work from within. Read More \| (1) Comments
Controversy over location follows Chicago Arts High June 20, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Facing a strong undercurrent of tension between traditional schools that feel threatened by new ones, Chicago High School for the Arts is once again at the center of a controversy over space. Read More \| (28) Comments	CPS looks to do "transformations" next year, not "turnarounds" May 19, 2011 By: Sarah Karp School watchers may have noticed something missing from the list of school actions proposed by CPS officials this year: No schools were selected for the turnaround program, in which the district fires virtually the entire staff at a school and replaces them with new teachers and administrators. Read More \| (9) Comments
Community group accuses Orr High of pushing out students March 21, 2011 By: Rebecca Harris In the month that Tyese Sims has been principal of Orr High, she has dropped 44 students from the rolls, she acknowledges. But one community group is accusing her of turning away as many as 150. Read More \| (16) Comments

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