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Schools ready to play ball now
A baseball game between Walter Payton College Preparatory High School and Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy was rescheduled for Saturday at Brooks, Chicago Public Schools officials said Monday. The Payton baseball team had initially...Tags: Walter Payton, Sports, College Baseball, Baseball
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High-quality preschool program produces long-term economic payoff
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Embargoed for Release Friday, February 4, 2011 12:01 a.m. Contact: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller 301-496-5133 High-quality preschool program produces long-term...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health Insurance Cost, Family, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Teaching and Learning
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Chicago center brings meditative mindset to combating youth violence
Most of the CeaseFire interrupters sat up in their chairs and closed their eyes, following the quiet direction of the small man in yellow and orange robes at the head of the conference table. "Allow your mind to feel the way you feel," Sakyong Mipham...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rahm Emanuel, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Youth Organizations
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CPS: No more assessment tests for youngest students this school year
Chicago Public Schools says it's taking a closer look at testing, for now removing assessment tests for kindergartners and first-graders this school year. Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett said this comes after months of outreach to parents,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students
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My challenge to Karen Lewis
A year ago Chicago teachers, clinicians, paraprofessionals and parents hoped that their strength in numbers and unity would yield the legislative action and contract settlement needed to remedy the problems teachers face in the classroom —...
Tags: Collective Contract, Rahm Emanuel, School Examinations, Public Schools, Karen Lewis
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School closings occupy CPS board meeting
As Chicago Public Schools embarks on closing dozens of schools, a third-grader from Garvey Elementary School on Wednesday summed up how many parents, educators and other students feel about the shutdowns. Speaking at the monthly Board of Education...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, School Examinations, Gage Park, Karen Lewis, Teaching and Learning
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Voice of the People, Apr. 26
In praise of stuff Every women's magazine I pick up has an article on de-cluttering. Every home I see pictured has been staged for purchase, not arranged for living. I get wedding invitations that recommend gift cards, not china or silver. I recently...Tags: China, Family, School Examinations, Magnet Schools, Education
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Daley giving $540,000 in campaign funds to charity
Former Mayor Richard Daley is giving more than $500,000 remaining in his campaign fund to 13 charities, with the biggest bequest going to the After School Matters organization founded by his wife Maggie, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. He's also giving six-...
Tags: Roseland, Charity, Chicago Elections, Healthcare Provider, Richard M. Daley
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Protests held at Chicago school headquarters
The school closing debate led to dueling protests this morning outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters. Students from various area high schools announced they planned to boycott the second day of standardized testing today to protest the role of...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, Lobbying, Teaching and Learning, Students, Politics
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A college degree is key
Like many other public school districts throughout the nation, Chicago Public Schools has a majority of underrepresented, low-income and first-generation students. Many of my students tell me they firmly believe attaining a college degree is simply out of...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Poverty, Teaching and Learning
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Mom finds son, 15, slain: 'I'm questioning my faith'
Tribune reportersTimika Rutledge-German finally accepted there was only so much she could do to protect her 15-year-old son from Chicago's dangerous streets, but when he called for her help, she knew she would go. On Monday night, her son phoned her for a ride home....Tags: Theft, Gang Activity, Cornbread, Kenwood, Hadiya Pendleton
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Illinois' method for measuring student poverty raises count statewide
In the federal government's view, an estimated 1,339 poor schoolchildren live within the affluent Arlington Heights-based School District 59. But the state counted 3,536 poor students when it doled out a "poverty grant" to the district this school year....
Tags: Wilmette, Burr Ridge, Arlington Heights, Government Aid, Lake Forest
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