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Illinois Passes Stricter Driver Ed Rules After Cars.com Investigation
KickingTiresAlmost one year after a joint investigation by Cars.com and the Chicago Tribune that highlighted aging and unsafe driver???s education fleets, the state of Illinois passed a law to improve safety in these programs. It's 10 a.m.: Do You Know......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Tribune, Justice System, Health and Safety at School, Illinois Department of Transportation
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Top 10 Best and Worst Chicagoland Driver's Ed Fleets
KickingTiresIn the Chicago Tribune's investigation of high school driver's ed fleets with Cars.com, some scored quite well, while others delivered embarrassing results in terms of safety. Below we break down the best and worst fleets. If you're not familiar with........Tags: Plymouth, Vernon Hills, Chicago Tribune, Transportation Accidents, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Obama picks Duncan for Education
The Swampby John McCormick President-elect Barack Obama will name Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan as his Secretary of Education at a West Side news conference Tuesday morning, a transition official said. The two men are friends and often play basketball.....Tags: Education, Schools, Government, Election Day, Illinois
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Arne Duncan inspires Republican lovefest
The Swampby Frank James Arne Duncan's confirmation hearing to be the incoming Obama Administration's Education Secretary could have easily been confused for a lovefest. Or the peaceable kingdom with the lion laying down with the lamb. Because the atmosphere was...Tags: Dick Durbin, Government, Upper House, Richard Burr, North Carolina
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Obama to Washington: Toughen up
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama and his two young daughters have a message for Washington, based on years of wintry experience in Chicago: Toughen up. Just a few inches of snow, followed by melting and then overnight......Tags: Education, Sidwell Friends School, White House, Schools, Government
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Obama snow days: First lady grounded
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who voiced his wintry discontent the day that his daughters' school in Washington closed "because of what... some ice?'' may have to hold down his objections today. "School is closed,'' the Web-site at Sidwell......Tags: Education, White House, Schools, Government, Arne Duncan
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Durbin to AG: help on Chicago violence
The Swampby John McCormick Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to do more to address youth violence in Chicago. "Last school year, more than 500 Chicago school children were shot and at least 36......Tags: Eric Holder, Crime, Law and Justice, Dick Durbin, Justice System, Upper House
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Obama's back-to-school lesson plans
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 230 pm EDT The suggested lesson plans accompanying President Barack Obama's planned address to schoolchildren next week have been modified, but this hasn't mollified critics of the president's back-to-school speech.: The...Tags: Television Industry, United States, White House, YouTube, Back to School
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Chicago violence (and guns?): Obama
The Swampby Mark Silva At least 47 school-age children in Chicago have died in homicides -- mostly victims of gun violence - since January, when President Barack Obama, of Chicago, took office, our Chicago-based friend, John McCormick, notes at Bloomberg News........Tags: Eric Holder, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Gun Control
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CPS training video helps improve ties between school guards, students
Until this school year, Ranice Green never thought she could have a say about how she interacted with the security guards at Hyde Park Academy, where she's a senior. She saw them as burly guys who often stopped fights and walked students to the...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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Strike pits new Democrats against old friends
"If you can't make it here," many Chicagoans have told me over the years, "you can't make it anywhere." That's why educators, politicians and labor organizers across the nation are keeping a close eye on the city's teachers strike. For public workers'...
Tags: White House, Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Helfgot's hoops blog | Morgan Park's Williams cleared to play by CPS
Morgan Park’s loaded backcourt is now complete. Senior point guard Markee Williams, who transferred from Morgan Park to Crane and then back to Morgan Park, has been declared eligible by Chicago Public Schools administration, according to Morgan...
Tags: Richton Park, Morgan Park, Hyde Park
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May 20, 2013
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Sep 12, 2012
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Dec 1, 2012
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