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Tough choices for turnarounds October 13, 2011 By: Lorraine Forte Tamoura Hayes started high school with big dreams for college that she already knew would be tough to reach. “C’mon,” she said. “I go to Marshall High School.” Obviously, Marshall’s long-standing academic failings weren’t lost on Tamoura, who went on to say that she “wasn’t even supposed to be here.” Marshall was her last option. Her family couldn’t afford the private school that was her first choice, and she wasn’t offered a slot at Raby, one of the newer high schools sprouting up on the West Side. Read More \| (0) Comments	Last-ditch tactic October 13, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Outside Marshall High, the day is cool but sunny. The school has been power-washed from a dingy red to a bright maroon. In place of the old broken concrete, weeds and rusted poles—remnants of a basketball court—is a newly sodded football field and a newly planted arboretum full of skinny young trees.Inside Marshall, the smell of fresh paint hovers in the air. It is the first day of school, September 7, 2010. Read More \| (5) Comments
Beating the odds October 13, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Whenever the one-note, mechanical “bing” would sound, Tamoura Hayes’ nerves began to unravel. Around her, the hallway would quickly fill up, turning into Lake Michigan on a stormy day, loud and thrashing. In the fall of 2007, Tamoura was a quiet 14-year-old freshman at Marshall High. Every time she moved from one class to the next, she did her best to avert her eyes from anyone and just blend in. Often, she had to duck around fights or avoid bullies. She didn’t tell anyone about the dread she felt. Today, Tamoura is 18 and can laugh about it. Read More \| (2) Comments	A special push October 13, 2011 By: Sarah Karp Marshall has long been a candidate for drastic action, with the percentage of students meeting state testing standards lingering in the single digits for years. But when CPS leaders announced that Marshall would become a turnaround, there was an additional outside push: The state had sanctioned the school because of its poorly run special education program. Read More \| (0) Comments
Marshall registration day October 13, 2011 Read More \| (0) Comments	Principal Kenyatta Stansberry October 13, 2011 Read More \| (0) Comments
Marshall graduation October 13, 2011 Read More \| (0) Comments	Tamoura's Prom October 13, 2011 Read More \| (0) Comments
Why it matters October 13, 2011 CPS and the federal government are pumping millions of extra cash into a cadre of long-failing high schools, in hopes of finally improving them. But systemic obstacles still stand in their way. Read More \| (0) Comments

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