As school discipline dispariti...
By Kalyn Belsha – Four years ago, Illinois passed the first in a series of discipline reforms meant to reduce student...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – Four years ago, Illinois passed the first in a series of discipline reforms meant to reduce student...
read moreCurtis Black – If Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s announcement of a splashy but half-baked project for an express line to O’Hare...
read moreAs other cities and states have moved to ban using solitary confinement as punishment for teens, the practice has increased at one of...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – When Chicago Public Schools closed an unprecedented 50 schools five years ago, officials repeatedly promised...
read moreBy Marcus Anthony Hunter – Harper’s Weekly 1865 Emancipation is about financial security too. “This bank is just what the...
read moreBy Kathie Kane-Willis and Stephanie Schmitz – Much attention has been paid to the opioid crisis in recent years, and for good...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – When Chicago Public Schools announced plans to close their neighborhood elementary school in March...
read moreKyle P. Westbrook – In 1991, I was admitted to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. My mother worked as a telephone...
read moreBy Curtis Black – We’ve seen this before, and it isn’t pretty: Governor Bruce Rauner and Springfield Republicans taking a...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – Two years ago, Chicago Public Schools officials got some pointed criticism in a report the district...
read moreBy Amanda E. Lewis and Kasey Henricks – Across the country, young people and their families are celebrating the annual ritual...
read moreJitu Brown – Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems not to hear the fierce protests of parents, teachers and school officials...
read moreBy Curtis Black – Following an adverse court ruling on the city’s school funding lawsuit last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a...
read moreCurtis Black – Underlying the immediate fiscal crisis at Chicago Public Schools – with CEO Forrest Claypool now threatening to...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – Key Elementary School, a sandy-colored brick building on a tree-lined street on Chicago’s West Side, sits...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – As gun violence soars in Chicago, public schools have not been able to devote enough resources to basic...
read moreBy Melissa Sanchez – When city and school officials launched the Chicago Star Scholarship program back in 2014, they promised a...
read moreBy Kalyn Belsha – Marshall High School achieved a major milestone recently: More than half its students graduated for the first...
read moreBy Melissa Sanchez – Lisseth Perez did not graduate at the top of her class from Chicago’s Hancock College Prep in 2015, but...
read moreBy Gina Caneva – Nothing says “Welcome back to school” to Chicago students, parents, and teachers quite like the threatening...
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